Peachy Lina Photo Archive

created in december of 2024, with images spanning from 2018-2024

‘Peachy Lina Photo Archive’ is a personal photo book, covering images from my practice and spanning from 2018-2024. The foreword reads as following:

‘An old friend once told me that I have a talent for making things feel nostalgic. I think she was talking about Instagram birthday posts but the sentiment still sticks and feels the same. I feel like, even before going to photography school, I suffered from painful nostalgia in my chest, thinking about old clothes I donated and feeling bad for them, collecting drawings and doodles and clothing tags and tickets to concerts. When I decided I wanted to pursue photography I don’t think I understood how valuable and how personal it was for me to capture the things and people surrounding me at certain periods of time. I recently visited my sister in Seattle. She has two young boys, one who is about to turn 1 and the other who will turn 4 later this year. I realised whilst visiting the significance of these moments and for capturing them, for there will be no other moment like this in their whole lives. No other summer where baby Fio is learning to stand and walk, no other time where my sister can carry both of them, one strapped to her front and the other in a piggy-back. This applies to my whole practice and onward. I have to capture the people and things and places I live, those I’ve left behind and those who I still hold close, or there would be no fibre to my life.’

This book took me almost a year to compile and edit all the images together. The final version printed here was only the final version for exhibiting at my final Brisbane exhibition, as I like that you’re easily able to flick through it. But I am looking for places to potentially get it reprinted and distributed in a easier way. So stay tuned!