Loss, desire, and intimacy are defined and limited by time. They cannot be held or contained. They are simply a passage through.
101 Pennies is a thirty year exploration of these currents that define the human experience. The photographs move across people, places, relationships, ritual, memory, and loss, creating a shifting family tree of friends, family, and lost souls.
The work is cinematic and sculptural. Each photograph engages in conversation with another, allowing meaning to emerge through sequence and association. Made over decades and around the world, the photographs resist a fixed chronology. Stories overlap, disappear, and reappear in different forms.
101 Pennies has been exhibited as an evolving installation in which the arrangement of photographs is never the same. Each new configuration alters the relationships between the images, allowing the narrative to continually change and renew itself.
The photographs are made using 35mm, medium format, and digital photography. Through enlarged negatives, traditional darkroom processing, overlays, and hand applied sepia toning, images made across different periods and formats are brought into a shared visual language.
In 2024, 101 Pennies was published by Fall Line Press as a limited edition hardcover folio. The book brings together 55 photographs from the larger body of work with text by Amy Bonnaffons.
