This photographic work situates itself in Toorak, Suva where my late Fijian-European father came from. The photographic images look at reconnecting with my Fijian heritage. The research included interviewing family and friends who knew my father. 

Photography has been an important medium for this ‘journey’, not only in documenting the family reconnection but also in a metaphorical contextualisation. The photographic processes of receiving light, photosensitivity, and fixing of images mirror the processes of my attempts to bridge the familial and personal expanses in fixing an image of my own familial belonging. The camera’s cognisant and mechanical properties are a veil of type; digital manipulation, imprecise darkroom processes, and colour gamut limitations all contribute to veiling some part of reality. Though the record of my sojourn in Suva reveals moments of clarity, it also acknowledges the indistinct opaqueness through which paternal experiences and family histories often veil themselves.