A Photographic Memory

A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed—a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker, who died suddenly and tragically when her daughter was just eighteen months old. Uncovering the vast archive Turner Seed produced—including lost interviews with iconic photographers Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Lisette Model, and Gordon Parks—Seed attempts to build a posthumous relationship with her mother through her interviews, photographs, journals, and films, as well as the stories of those who remember her. The result is an unlikely mother-daughter conversation that evades time and space, exploring universal themes of memory, loss, and legacy.