Between the darkroom in the basement of her childhood home and her mother's collection of photo books, Tara's fascination with the art of photography was inevitable from a young age. For as long as she can remember, Tara has used photography as an attempt to preserve and make sense of the ever fleeting world around her. The idea of what something once was, now potentially disregarded or forgotten, has led Tara to develop her main body of work: The Presence of Absence.