Irina Chaiet is a Russian-American photographer born in Moscow and based in Upstate New York. Her work explores memory, family and the emotional weight that photographs carry. Drawn to everyday spaces, objects and the people closest to her, she traces how past and present coexist. She also considers how images become proof of what was lived and felt. Her photographs come together as fragmented narratives, honoring what is lost while shaping something new. The Days Stood Still follows her return to her childhood home after her aunt’s death, reflecting on time, loss and memory through domestic spaces and everyday objects.