For this issue of UofTMed Magazine, we decided to use photography for all of the artwork. Research has shown that taking photos may boost memory when it comes to retaining the visual aspects of an experience. The choice to use photography was guided by the term “after-image” — which is when an image continues to appear in a person’s eyes after a period of exposure to the original image. From personal portraits of people interviewed for stories, to the reverberations of the after-images found in the mirrors on our cover, photography allowed us to fully explore the theme of memory.
Contributors
Blake Eligh is a senior communications officer with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Eligh served as the editor of UofTMedMagazine in 2022, and has written for magazines such as Canadian Geographic and Canadian Family. Her most cherished memories are those made with her extended family during annual summer vacations to a groovy 1960s cabin on one of Lake Huron’s Fishing Islands.
Dan Falkis a Toronto-based science journalist and author with a particular interest in the physical sciences. He has contributed to magazines such as Smithsonian and Scientific American, and published three popular science books, The Science of Shakespeare, In Search of Time and Universe on a T-Shirt. Falk would like to learn more about how memory affects our perception of time. For this issue, he wrote about the future of dementia care and the role of technology.
