In The Veteran’s Archive, Logan Rayment reconstructs the fragmented legacy of his great-grandfather Norman, a Royal Canadian Air Force member during the Second World War, through a mix of archival imagery, family memory, and personal intervention. Spanning 15 years of photographs from Norman's wartime service to the late 1950s, Rayment re-photographs the prints on a light table to reveal their materiality—the writing, stamps, and creases that hold their history. Paired with conversations with his grandmother, whose hazy recollections invite speculation, the series interweaves Rayment’s own photographs and close-up montages, exploring the tensions between memory and imagination. The result is a layered narrative that bridges generations, embracing both the gaps and the possibilities of familial storytelling. - Feven Tesfamariam, The Image Centre.

2024