THE SAILOR'S DAUGHTER

My father is a sailor. I come from a family where long-distance relationships, goodbyes and reunions, adapting to different time zones or having a huge map of the world in the middle of the apartment where I can follow him have always been ordinary things.
A sailor in a country that hasn't had a sea since 1918 arouses people's curiosity and is a bit strange, so having a family that's different from the others has always been part of my identity. But for me, as a child, sailing always remained a vision: because of the changing situation in Hungary in the early 90s, I didn't have the opportunity to travel with my father as my mother had done before the political changes. Only the anecdotes of the adventures they'd had together remained, and I'd ask him to tell them to me again and again, before they sank into oblivion.
Since my trip in 2018, I've continued to process the images and my fami-lial archive, and continue to create new photos based on our stories, symbols and memories. I'm still experimenting with showing archival material in different ways in my series. Although I'm planning an installation form, I'd also like to create a photo book of this project in time.