The photographic series Stranger to Me examines my dissonant relationship with my familial history and my curiosity to explore the physical remnants of my family’s past. Through rephotographing family photographs and negatives from three generations, I visualize the strangeness of how people I have never met are invisibly tied to me, being fundamental to my existence. This strangeness shows through the abstractions of the negatives and the blurred sense of familiarity and connection that is created. The connection between my family’s past and the self I am today is only accessible to me through photography. My relationship with my family’s past has been disconnected by time, just as how time has imprinted on the photographs themselves, distorting their original form. Stranger to Me also examines the evolution of photography itself through time and technological advancements. This series shows the progression of photographic technology and the effects of time and technology on how we choose to preserve our memories physically. Stranger to Me evokes a sense of wonder and dissonance—wonder at how life looked and felt three generations ago, and dissonance towards how foreign and distant that life is to us now. I aim to encourage viewers to examine their own relationships to their family history and the effect of time on our lives.