Heather Tonkin is a conceptual photographer whose practice investigates family and familiar memories to reconstruct and explore a sense of home and belonging. She has a collaborative approach that engages with analogue and digital techniques that creates a personal view into the physical and aesthetic characteristics of memory.
Tonkin’s current work compresses the given information about her absent father, burning into the photographic exposure to reconnect and process the limited knowledge about him due to his premature passing and family members fading memories of him over time.
Following the wedding ceremony of Dad and Mum, retraces the journey taken by her Mum and Dad after their wedding ceremony, with the overexposure representing the amount of given information about it and preceding memories that have occurred along that same course.
BA (Hons) Photography - Farnham 
Jemma Young | Photography
