Series of projection-installations. Spring 2025. 

Photographs are not merely vessels of information or static evidence of a person, event or location. They are objects; cultural artifacts permeated with material presence and emotional weight. They live full, complex lives: passed through hands, embedded in rituals, and subject to cycles of care and neglect we are all familiar with. To critically engage with archival photographs, one must consider its materiality, physical form, mode of storage, and the setting in which it is found. Just as we are shaped by our environments, so too are photo-objects.

This photo series emerges from this perspective: I question why collections that are deemed precious and irreplaceable, frequently drift into neglect, tucked away, under a bed gathering dust. There seems to be an unspoken ritual, and unreflexive, shared habit that prevails: we (perhaps accidentally) physically depreciate archival objects that are simultaneously known to be amongst the very things we imagine saving first when fleeing from disaster.