Kurney Ramsey Photography

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The Other Life
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The Other Life

I'm fascinated by the light that surrounds us. I explore the familiar scenes from my life, the places I have called home, the places I spend time with friends, the darkened roads I take home at night. My ordinary life transformed by color and light.

Many of the forgotten places in my life have returned in glimpses of light.



Returning

I have returned to the places of my youth and the homes of my family. In examining these places I have seen new things, overlooked spaces and unknown possessions. An energy still fills these places, triggering memories of stories told and times spent never realizing when the last time together would be.

My family has lived in the same area of eastern North Carolina in a small farming community for over 200 years and land has been passed down through the generations. My father owns a farm that was sold to him by my grandfather which my grandfather had bought from my great-grandfather and one day my sister and I will own it. My father built a home on this land in 1960 and lived there until 2008. It is the house I grew up in. My grandmother lived in a house that was over 100 years old and was at one point used as a country school. In it she raised six children including my father. My father once asked where he was born and she pointed across her living room and said “right there”. I am photographing these homes and this land over the course of a couple years, through the light of winter, spring, summer and fall.