Photographic Project
Generational Continuity
A photographic project about memory, inheritance, and feminine continuity across generations.
Created in memory of Dafna’s grandmother Irene, the series brings together documentary images, reconstructed moments, and staged portraits through inherited garments, scarves, jewelry, and domestic objects.
Persian cultural memory runs through the work, connecting family history with a contemporary visual language shaped by intimacy, remembrance, and transmission.
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The project began after the loss of Dafna’s grandmother Irene in 2022. Through her, the women in the family inherited gestures, values, and forms of care that continue to shape them across generations.
Some of the photographs were taken spontaneously during Irene’s visits to Dafna’s mother’s home, capturing intimate moments in which she would bless her. From those images, one photograph was later reconstructed using Irene’s clothing, headscarf, and jewelry as an act of remembrance and continuation.
Other photographs were made in the home of Dafna’s late aunt Tziyonah in Holon, who passed away only a few weeks after Irene. The series also includes self-portraits and family portraits in which inherited objects — garments, scarves, jewelry, textiles, and domestic elements — become carriers of memory across generations.
The project was developed entirely by Dafna, including styling, clothing, and makeup, as a gesture of love, continuity, and respect for the feminine strength passed down through her family.
Selected images
The series moves between intimate family gestures, reconstructed memory, and portraits shaped through inherited materials.
