Substack #1: Concerned with Memory and Meaning

Self Portrait as Dad in 1986, Photographed by Alyssa Marzolf DeWitt, 2008.

Hello, and welcome to my text and image Substack, Against Forgetting: Images as Sites of Meaning. If we haven’t met yet, let me introduce myself: name is Alyssa, and I am a photographer based in Rochester, NY. I’m originally from a rural town outside of Buffalo, NY. I grew up in a farming community until age 10, and then moved to a suburb of Buffalo until after high school when I moved to Rochester to attend RIT. There, I received a BFA in photography (in the midst of the 2008 recession), then continued my education at Columbia College Chicago, and in 2011 received my MFA in photography. In 2012, I moved back to Rochester to work at RIT at the Image Permanence Institute. After a few years working there, I took a job as a post-production manager, while also continuing to work on a few different photography projects. I got married, bought a house, had twins, and started my own photography business.