Hauntology
Hauntology explores unrealized futures, capturing how crumbling utopias and suppressed possibilities manifest in human presence and eroded environments.
Hauntology gathers images in which the present seems unsettled by something it cannot fully contain. The photographs do not point toward a single lost history or failed future. They sit in the unstable space between presence and absence, evidence and suggestion, where meaning appears briefly and then slips out of reach.
Derrida’s idea of hauntology gave me a way to understand this recurrence. The specter is neither fully present nor entirely gone. It disturbs the distinction between the two. In these images, what has been excluded, deferred or left unresolved continues to press against what is visible. The photograph becomes less a record of what happened than a trace of something that cannot be made whole.
The project stays with that uncertainty. It does not identify the source of the disturbance or resolve the images into a shared narrative. Something remains, but the photograph cannot say exactly what.