memory loss

Memory Loss is a photographic project developed during my MA in Creative Practice, exploring memory, time and the unexpected connections between strangers. Using rolls of 35mm film discovered inside second-hand cameras, I photographed over images taken years - sometimes decades - earlier, creating accidental double exposures where two completely unrelated moments meet within a single frame. The project later expanded to include forgotten photographs, memory cards and home-video footage, examining what happens to personal memories once they become separated from the people who created them.

At the heart of the project is an interest in chance and the unknown. I never knew what, if anything, was already recorded on the film, meaning each developed roll became a collaboration between myself and an anonymous photographer from the past. Family holidays, portraits, landscapes and everyday moments unexpectedly became intertwined with my own photographs, creating images that could never be deliberately recreated. Memory Loss considers photography not simply as a way of preserving a moment, but as an object that can become lost, rediscovered and given an entirely new life and meaning.