MEMORY OF TREES
MEMORY OF TREES
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In her series Memory of Trees, Kathryn Cook (b. 1979) captures images that tell about the Armenian genocide that happened in Turkey in 1915. While the Turkish government denies the genocide, many Armenian families mourn their lost grandparents. In search of people who wanted to talk about the issue, Cook encountered a former Armenian village called Agacli, or “the place of trees”. While hardly any Armenians live in the village anymore, an old Armenian silk weaving tradition is still alive there. So Cook photographed the “place of trees” and its silk weaving production as a way of tracing back the lives and memories of the people that once lived there.
