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Anatomy of Amnesia (2025)

Anatomy of Amnesia asks: what remains, when memory is out of reach?

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These 20 photographs represent my mind revealing fragments of memory of personal history in dreamscapes, in the early stages of my recovery from amnesia. Without autobiographical memory and in a state of complete disconnection, symbolism and archetype felt more real than anything else.

I took these photographs later, exploring how I connected back to the world and my story, paying attention to the things that symbolically spoke to what I knew. The photographs depict triggers and clues to significant aspects of my life, in the language of my processing unconscious mind. 
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Ruth Emily Hanson is a contemporary fine art and documentary photographer based in Lancaster, NW England

Copyright 2026 © Ruth Emily Hanson

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