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Gem Redford | The Art Of What Lingers
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About
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Field Notes
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Overview
About
Gallery
Store
Field Notes
Contact
  • A Familiar Place

    A Familiar Place is my ongoing study of the UK, faded seaside towns, windswept coastal roads, quiet estates, and the edges of ordinary villages. Closer to home, but no less strange, these are the landscapes I grew up in, grew tired of, and now return to with a different kind of attention.

    I’m drawn to the quiet poetry of their surfaces: salt-bitten paint, curtains drawn at midday, the flicker of television through frosted glass. They are ordinary places, yet they hold the weight of memory, not tied to a single moment, but to the slow accumulation of time.

    These places are easy to overlook, but they hum with a kind of knowing. A quiet response to the repetition, stillness, and memory of being at home.

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  • Empty small-town street with old buildings, a grocery store, and a cafe sign with arrows pointing down.

    Quiet Stories From The American Road

    I’m drawn to the ghosts of modern America, faded motels, quiet main streets, and the overlooked corners of small towns. My photographs trace the edges of memory and nostalgia, where the everyday feels both familiar and slightly out of time.

    Current series like This Small Town and Between Places explore the textures of ordinary life, storefronts, homes, and roadside spaces that carry the weight of presence and absence. Other projects are quietly taking shape, soon to be shared here.

    Together, these works form a portrait of a landscape in transition: suspended, uncertain, and always touched by the quiet tension of what lingers.

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  • Row of colorful waterfront houses reflected in the water, with hills in the background.

    Far From Home

    Far From Home is my study of unfamiliar places, border towns, inland villages, city edges, seen not as destinations but as fleeting encounters. I’m drawn to the in-between spaces of travel, where language falters, customs shift, and you’re left to find your way through gestures, atmosphere, and instinct.

    Photographed across different countries and cultures, this series doesn’t aim to explain so much as to notice: a shopkeeper sweeping at dawn, a faded poster in a language I don’t read, a street that carries a scent I can’t place. These moments stay with me, both strange and familiar at once.

    A quiet response to the uncertainty, beauty, and mystery of being far from home.

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