Janice Weichman

 anemoia /′a-nə-mȯi-ə/ noun. Nostalgia for a time or place one has never known*

Modern life has stirred an interest in looking back upon imagined better days. While nostalgia can be real, it can also be influenced (or created) by stories about the past. Whatever the source, this feeling is often entwined with a sense of place.

On daily walks with a moody infrared camera, I searched for “place” in historic homes, city streets, museums, farmyards, old neighborhoods, decaying mill sites, and the woods. I found solace in the architecture of the past, comfort in the sacredness of daily life, and melancholy in the passage of time.

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time.”  − T.S. Eliot from “Little Gidding”

*John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Artist Bio

Janice Weichman is a Massachusetts-based photographer. She was born in Manhattan and her earliest childhood memories are of exploring cities, museums, and old churches – a practice she still enjoys. Janice studied art history at Bucknell University and the University of Chicago. An advertising career in New York eventually led to a transfer to the LA office, a life partner, two children, and a Nikon SLR. She’s been carrying around one kind of camera or another ever since.