For generations the family archive has been a living document. Images shuffling from one place to another, becoming decreasingly chronological as a family expands. With the introduction of digital photography, there has been a heavy decline in new additions to the physical archive. What was once a constantly evolving collection is now a closed anthology. Unlike the generations that came before me, the advancement of my life is not accounted for within this institution. In my family archive, I exist perpetually as a self I have no memory of being. Shot on the camera that captured my childhood, Self-Evident is an acquaintance of the unrecognizable past with the identifiable present. Through physical touch, shadow and reflection, this work articulates the experience of viewing a distant and unknowable self.