This is an ongoing of photographic series of found personal photographs from the 1910's to the 1970's. Six years ago Carland started looking behind the photographs at the scribbles and hand written notations on the backside. There she have found coded languages; a specific date of unnamed significance, declarations of foreign travel and proof of prideful property ownership. These scraps of words are enlisted to force memory, entitlement and melancholy onto the photograph on the other side. Often times these backs of photographs become a literal (or literary) mirror of the photographic image. Carland photographed the photographs so that the slightest hint or trace of the image on the other side appears as an apparition, a not fully appeared or almost disappeared image. Although the words and markings sometimes fail to inscribe the image with meaning beyond what is seen, they always manage to lend insight to the archivist, the keeper of the photographs. The words, scribbles, folds, stains and dirt on the back of the photograph become their own photographic image, or trace, of the life of the photograph; who it was for, when, where, why it was taken and how it has lived its life, rather precious and protected or lost and broken.