The Anonymous Project / Lee Shulman, Golden Memories, 2025

Over the years, artist and collector Lee Shulman has rescued thousands of anonymous color slides, snapshots of everyday life, family vacations, birthday parties, fleeting expressions frozen in time. In Golden Memories, he transforms a selection of these forgotten moments into luminous objects of contemplation by printing them on gold leaf.

Each photograph becomes a small, glowing icon. Light shimmers on the fragile surface; the image hovers between presence and absence. As we gaze, we are invited to slow down, to look closer, and to recognise something of ourselves in the lives of strangers.

Through this precious material transformation, Shulman gives new dignity to what might otherwise have vanished and offers us a quiet, moving meditation on time, memory, and the traces we leave behind.