Roee Morag

Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens, 2025

Photography Series

Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father’s Lens is a personal and emotional journey into the space between photography and painting. The series works with old film photographs taken by my father and his family throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These photographs are projected onto abstract paintings created on paper, allowing the two visual languages to overlap and interfere with one another. Faces melt into color fields, gestures echo across brushstrokes, and familiar scenes dissolve into abstraction.

The series engages with memory, loss, and the shifting nature of family archives. It questions the boundaries of photography as a documentary medium and explores how painting can reshape and reframe what is remembered. By layering personal painterly traces over a familial photographic archive, these works create a visual dialogue that moves between generations, between mediums, and between emotion and image.

A face with closed eyes, lying down, under strokes of orange, red and purple paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens IArchival pigment print
A boy in a striped shirt rests his chin on his hands behind a fence, with teal and brown paint across the photograph.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens IIArchival pigment print
Two small children sit close together on grass, partly covered by sweeps of blue paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens IIIArchival pigment print
A smiling man in a dark suit stands among pink and purple blossoms.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens IVArchival pigment print
Two figures sit by a light-colored car under bands of pink, purple and red paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens VArchival pigment print
A man with glasses sits outdoors among trees, tinted blue, yellow and purple.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens VIArchival pigment print
A young boy in a dark sweater stands in a field, with blue, green and red brush marks over him.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens VIIArchival pigment print
Two figures in gas masks face each other against green, turquoise and orange paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens VIIIArchival pigment print
A smiling girl with red curly hair, covered in blue and orange paint strokes.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens IXArchival pigment print
Two distant figures stand in a green field, framed by dark brown paint strokes.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XArchival pigment print
A reclining figure in a purple top among rust orange and blue paint shapes.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XIArchival pigment print
A figure stands on a park path, crossed by diagonal lines of yellow and green paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XIIArchival pigment print
A young man with dark curly hair sits with his arms on his knees against pale green paint and purple strokes.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XIIIArchival pigment print
Dense green, pink and red brushstrokes cover the image, with a mask-like face near the center.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XIVArchival pigment print
A light-colored car stands on dry ground beneath a tree, tinted purple and pink.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XVArchival pigment print
Two small figures at the lower left beside a large red and blue mottled form.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XVIArchival pigment print
A boy in a blue shirt sits at a desk beside shelves, with blue and yellow paint over the scene.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XVIIArchival pigment print
A young man wearing headphones sits at a desk beside a television screen showing a face.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XVIIIArchival pigment print
A child in blue shorts leaps or floats in a field of yellow, pink, turquoise and purple paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XIXArchival pigment print
Figures in a room with tall windows, overlaid with yellow, blue and brown paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XXArchival pigment print
A man with curly hair leans over a large case, framed by white and gray paint marks.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XXIArchival pigment print
A man stands in water beside a band of red, white and blue paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XXIIArchival pigment print
A child, almost in silhouette, steps forward beneath trees in turquoise and blue tones.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XXIIIArchival pigment print
A figure with arms outstretched among red branch-like lines on yellow and blue paint.
Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens XXIVArchival pigment print