A Reconstruction of Memory

Haunted by memories of his father’s long hospitalization for depression, Johan Willner turned his childhood visions into photographic tableaux.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/memories-of-a-boys-life-reconstructed/

Johan Willner started out as a documentary photographer, trying to capture decisive moments that explained other people’s experiences. He later became a printer for Magnum in New York, painstakingly reproducing other people’s visions while studying the archived contact sheets of Josef Koudelka, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.