An Archive of Unidentified People

I'm interested in forgotten stories, erasure and decay. This project, created in collaboration with the Tate Archive and RCA, explores questions of identity and institutional memory. I worked directly within the archive, using photographs of unidentified individuals as the starting point for the work. Through this process, I aim to pour light on the experience of being forgotten. The images are small-scale silver gelatin prints, made through light, movement and photographic chemicals in the darkroom. Images emerge slowly and remain vulnerable to fading or failure, mirroring how the people within the archive exist between visibility and disappearance. Working physically in the darkroom becomes an act of care and sustained attention.