This article struck me as being quite an interesting aside to my project; it shows an anxiety about memory and about using photos as memory; this suggests a fear over forgetting and about creating. Here someone says outright that they can't remember if they do not photograph, and begins to wonder if they actually have memories which aren't photos at all.
I had a similar experience with my sisters at christmas. We all thought we remembered something which was in a photo, but after talking to our parents, realized that none of us were even anywhere near the photo when it happened. Th photo has taken on meaning and stories by being a family object, and because of the photo being so alike to memory, we all feel as if we were there, when we were not. This suggests that photographs have become similuarca to memory and experience. This is quite a scary idea, or at least is slightly shocking.
In my project, people use photographs to say that they are "here"; they want to participate in many realities, even if they do not know whose it is. This is both a fear of being forgotten and a need to create reality, as well as rethink of disposable identities.