Credits

Director: A Photographic Memory

Synopsis

An intimate, genre-bending portrait of a daughter’s attempt to piece together a portrait of her mother, an avant-garde journalist she never knew. Uncovering the vast archive Sheila Turner Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Davidson, Lisette Model, and others, the film explores memory, legacy and stories left untold.

Biography

Rachel Elizabeth Seed is an LA-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography and writing. Her debut feature film A Photographic Memory, which premiered as the Closing Night film at True/False 2024, was called “one of the best docs of the year” by RogerEbert.com and “an ingenious, meta doc” by Variety. Rachel’s work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Field of Vision, the Jerome Foundation, and Gotham Labs, among others. Formerly a photo editor at New York Magazine, her photography has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, and she co-founded the Brooklyn Documentary Club, a thriving film collective in NYC.