Visual Studies / 020

Time, Memory & Absence

New York City, United States

2015–2025

9/11 Memorial

A photographic study of how private grief is organized into public memory through ceremony, architecture and civic ritual.

9/11 Memorial observes the annual service in Lower Manhattan, where names, uniforms, flowers, barriers and repeated gestures give collective form to individual loss.

The photographs stay close to the mechanics of remembrance. Mourners gather inside a ceremony shaped by official protocol, media attention and the physical architecture of the memorial. Intimate expressions of grief remain visible, but they enter a public framework that also carries civic and national meaning.

The series does not treat mourning as unified or complete. It asks what is gained and what is altered when personal memory becomes ceremony, and how a public ritual keeps an event present for people whose relationships to it are not the same.


  • Hauntology

    Hauntology

    Hauntology explores unrealized futures, capturing how crumbling utopias and suppressed possibilities manifest in human presence and eroded environments.

  • The Notebook

    The Notebook

    The Notebook observes people writing in public and the private interior held by the page, where memory, unfinished thought and absence meet.

  • The City Behind the Wall

    The City Behind the Wall

    The City Behind the Wall examines temporary urban barriers as accidental frames, revealing hidden layers of a city undergoing constant transformation.

  • Oral Intervention

    Oral Intervention

    Fleeting, intimate gestures of touching mouths in public spaces.

  • Walking Wounded

    Walking Wounded

    Frailty, resilience, and the complex emotions triggered by witnessing trauma in public spaces.

  • Tokyo After Dark
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    Tokyo After Dark

    Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.