Turner Seed, as one of her friends and colleagues interviewed for “A Photographic Memory” phrases it, wasn’t a workaholic, exactly. She was a “lifeaholic,” living, traveling, striving ...

Sheila Turner-Seed left behind a trove of insightful interviews with major photographers. Her daughter unearths them, in pursuit of a connection she never had.

Renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed died of a brain hemorrhage when her daughter Rachel was a toddler. Almost 50 years later, Rachel tries to reframe her understanding of who Sheila was.

Simons told us photographic memory “is not supported by scientific evidence.” Instead, neuroscientists might talk about “eidetic” memory – fans of The Big Bang Theory will remember that ...

Then again, “A Photographic Memory” — in order to offer Seed the lasting solace that she was determined to get from it — had to end with the director creating her own image of her mother ...

‘A Photographic Memory’ Review: A Filmmaker Traces Her Late Mother’s Vibrant Life in Ingenious Meta Doc Reviewed online, April 30, 2024. In Hot Docs, True/False film festivals.

In “A Photographic Memory,” Rachel implicitly answers that assertion. That’s true, of course. But imperfectly recreating the past is better than letting it slip away with the passage of time.

The acquisition deal for A Photographic Memory was negotiated by Zeitgeist Co-Presidents Emily Russo and Nancy Gerstman and filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed. Russo and Gerstman noted they are ...

'A Photographic Memory' charts a daughter's dive into the legacy of a mother she never knew. Robert Abele. Fri, June 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM UTC. 3 min read.

Without playing with anyone’s life, “A Photographic Memory” makes beautiful sense of the connections between mother and daughter, work and love and other mysteries. 'A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY' 3 ...

The accomplished mother that photographer-writer Rachel Elizabeth Seed never knew is the star of her deeply affecting “A Photographic Memory,” one of last year’s best documentaries, finally ...