Untold Voices

“A sense of identity” rather than “identity”.

Untold Voices began with several vintage family photographs that Chieska Fortune Smith discovered at her family home in Japan.

Born to an African-American soul singer and a Japanese classical dancer, Fortune Smith has carried a sense of not having a solid grounding since her childhood. By collecting the haunting yet enigmatic moments of everyday life and her vintage family photographs which trace back three generations of her family, she evokes a melancholy as fleeting as a mirage, and transforms them into an exploration of her own roots.