Case Study / Selected Work

The Missing Roll

The Missing Roll

The Missing Roll

The Missing Roll began with a need to reconnect with a part of my history I had never explored through my work. After losing photographs from home, I began exploring what remains when an image is gone — and what memory holds that photography cannot.

Context

Greenwich Graduate Show / MACK Submission

DELIVERABLES

Publication
Wall Installation
Editorial Design

Year

2026

Role

Creative Direction / Editorial Design / Photography

An incomplete archive where absence becomes the image.

An incomplete archive where absence becomes the image.

An incomplete archive where absence becomes the image.

Rather than recreate what was lost, I made the absence part of the archive.

Rather than recreate what was lost, I made the absence part of the archive.

Using a 36-exposure roll of Kodak film, I photographed objects and scenes that reminded me of home. But some memories existed only in my head and could never be photographed.


Instead of filling those gaps, the publication preserves them through descriptive text, negative space and restrained typography.

DESIGN SYSTEM

36-frame roll
Descriptive text
Missing image spaces
Wall installation