Photographs document memorable moments in each family's life: weddings, births, graduations, birthdays etc. Not unlike trophies, they are displayed in the home as proofs of the family's cohesiveness as a unit, the economical standing of its members and their subscription to acceptable social norms. The Album - Family History Revisited presents a complete set of family photographs displayed in regular household frames in the places one would expect to find them in a domestic space. The collection of these images is the photographic history of a family that does not exist in a space they do not inhabit; the very nature of the space prevents its long-term association with any one family. These frozen moments of choice question familial structures and socially enforced gender roles. The Album - Family History Revisited carries within its folds a questioning of photography as a reinforcer of reality. This far into the digital age, the photographic medium can still incite the same level of belief in     its audience as it did upon its invention provided it stays close to the "normal" and the "acceptable" and is kept within its "customary" context. Hala Elkoussy (1974) lives and works in Cairo. She obtained her MA in image and communication from Goldsmiths College, London. Her recent exhibitions include PhotoCairo at the Townhouse gallery, Cairo, Magda & Nevine Two Women From Egypt at the Sakakini Art Centre, Ramallah and 5ème Rencontre de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, Mali. She took part in the Artists in Residence Programme in Aarau, Switzerland (2003). This year she takes part in the Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal.