My grandfather spent six months under violent interrogation in a German prison during World War II. The legacy of his traumatic experience has been three generations of abuse and family dysfunction. I brought my dispersed family back to my grandfather’s house in rural Missouri, where he still lives. These photographs are both documentary and staged, with family members reenacting scenes from the family’s past. The project mimics the treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, referred to as exposure in vivo, in which subjects return to the location of a trauma and confront their fears in order to heal.
