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There is an interview with Miranda Hutton here

Miranda Hutton's Rooms Project is a long running series of photographs of the bedrooms of children who have died. These are wide angle, medium format images, taken using natural light.

Many of the rooms are still set up as the children had left them, they have become museums in their own right, shrines to the child who has died, an attempt to record them, keep them alive, hold on to a piece of them. This is a very heavy subject to deal with, as loss is very personal and the loss of a child is one of the most tragic.

The objects in the rooms have a sense of being a dead persons belongings in a way that museum objects do not, the personal nature of the objects is lost when they become institutionalized.
I'm waffling, of course, but I find it interesting that when the child's belongings become artifacts the seem more personal than they would if the child were alive, where as artifacts in museums (presumably also belonging to someone deceased) seem much less personal.

The images themselves are very loaded, and even without the titles the glow created by the long exposures give the images an eerie feeling that doesn't rely on their context.