This chapter is an experiment in imaginative dialogue. It is co-authored but also calls upon 19th century authors Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Anna Atkins to act as spirit guides in the use of fiction to explore a relationship between the family photograph and autobiographical memory. In an extension of Roland Barthes’ biographeme, it discusses the idea that photographic, and photographed, objects can become nexuses that connect, stimulate, and radiate autobiographical memories. It champions imaginary involvement and an emotional response to the family photograph as a way of giving voice to the voiceless. The chapter is split into two interrelated voices. Voice 1 focuses on the methods and processes involved in creating fictional dialogues with photographic objects. Voice 2 creates a series of fictional dialogues with a collection of photographic images scattered randomly throughout the text. The reader is encouraged
to read the text in any order.