ELSEWHERE

The world, as I remember it.

Volcanic ridges rising beneath immense sunlit clouds

Visual archive2024—ongoing

A visual archive of the world
experienced by one person.

Not a guide. Not a list.
Just places that stayed.

Explore by visual world

What
remains.

Five ways in. The archive already knows where these were taken; this is sorted by what is in them.

01

People

Strangers, mostly. A second each.

A worker looks across a counter during a conversation
02

Beaches

Weather, mostly. And the horizon.

An empty beach and small yellow boat beneath an approaching storm
03

Urban

Dense. Something happening somewhere.

Pedestrians moving through a lantern-lined street
04

Jungle

Green, dark, closer than it looks.

A weathered human figure held inside the roots of an old tree
05

Ocean

Large, and never sitting still.

Silhouetted passengers look down at turbulent cobalt water
A market worker pauses with one hand at her shoulder

People I met
along the way.

Some encounters remain without becoming stories. A gesture, a task, a face held for a fraction of a second.

See the first encounters
A small spiral shell resting in an open hand

A small thing.
It stayed.

Place unconfirmed
Deep green ridges beneath a gathering field of clouds

Some places
resist categories.

Nothing in them turns out to be the size you expected.

Black
& White

The quieter room. Some photographs only settle once the colour is out of the way.

Enter the collection
A woman smiles at her reflection between foreground silhouettes
A very small boat beneath an immense dark sky
A breakwater lighthouse beneath a long grey sky

Destinations

Place is the second way through the archive. Four chapters are open; the rest of the work is there to be found by place and year.

Enter the place index
  1. 01 Japan 203 photographs · chapter open
  2. 02 La Réunion 101 photographs · chapter open
  3. 03 Malaysia 64 photographs · in the archive
  4. 04 Thailand 57 photographs · in the archive
  5. 05 Essaouira 47 photographs · chapter open
  6. 06 Düsseldorf 22 photographs · chapter open
  7. 07 Phu Quoc 19 photographs · in the archive
  8. 08 Laos 12 photographs · in the archive
A lone figure in shallow water beneath a saturated sunset

The Journey

The last photograph before dark.

Enter the Journey

The archive is
always unfinished.

More photographs. More relationships. Fewer conclusions.

A small yellow bird poised above moving water
01A bright interruption
The tight spiral of a fern against saturated colour
02Not open yet
A boxer looks past raised red gloves during practice
03Gloves up, looking elsewhere