He could walk past me in the street
Megan Hill
Megan Hill’s series He could walk past me in the Street is a hazy memoir of a man who was last seen by two people over 48 years ago. The series explores a man who arrived from Hungary and ended up leaving his birth child, Hill’s father, which remained unknown to her for over two decades. Focusing on the first marriage between Hill’s grandmother and her father’s birth father, the visual concept is a reconstruction of memories given to Hill by her father and his aunt; alongside this exploration Hill used a map of the local area to visualise where the events took place, absurdly close to where Hill herself lived. The turning point in this project for Hill was the discovery of Ancestry.com to find information her family couldn’t provide.
