ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between the practices of making photographs to the perception of one's mortality through the use of photographic methods in practice; specifically, this research explores visual perceptions of time within the bereavement groups. As photography becomes increasingly accessible, familiar and sharable for the non-professionals, there is an increased potential that both online and offline, for photographs to mediate grief in personal journals and in the grief groups. In the case of the Bereavement Project, the assignment to photograph about the loss of their loved one often means that memory is tightly linked with visual observations. In the Bereavement Project, as Harper describes with photo-elicitation, the photographs have the potential to enhance and nurture the conversation at group therapy sessions; the images, together with the journal entries, serve to objectify emotions, creating just enough distance for the group to process them together.
