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24 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 4 2o18 Katy Beinart | Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt At the time we made this trip, we had no photo- graphic image of her father, Nicholas, but had heard that an image of him in furs, probably taken in Russia, existed (see figure 7). Several years after our trip, Brian, a cousin of my father and the eldest son of Edith’s son Mag- nus, sent me a digital image of this photograph which he had in his house in Sydney, Australia. Brian was planning his own trip to St Petersburg on the family history trail and had found a few photo- graphs that he received from his father. He also sent us a picture of a young girl, taken in a studio in St Petersburg (figures 8 and 9). I could see the resemblance to the photographs of Anne and deduced that it was likely to be her as a young girl. But in all these pictures, there is the absence of a mother – Anne’s mother. This is an incomplete family unit in an incomplete family tree. In Finding Anne, Re- becca’s and my re-enactment of Anne’s photographs in Hamburg, and my layering of these images, the question of the referent is complicated. Looking at our images, there is the referent of ourselves in the moment of taking our photograph, but there is also the referent of Anne’s image in the past. An image that, to me, is consciously unauthentic – a deliberate recreation that is impossible to make accurate or authentic – becomes a new moment and a new relationship between viewer and referent, so that in a sense we are making memories for the future. We can tell stories and put on record our search for a place in which Anne was only fleetingly present, and on which multiple memories and identities have since been layered. Figure 7: Photograph of Nicholas Filaratoff. Source: Bryan Levy. Figure 8-9: Photograph of Anne as a girl; reverse of Photograph. Source: Bryan Levy.