This body of work emerges from landscapes historically rich within the narrative of Southern Africa – territories, farmlands, wastelands, arid deserts, tiny dorp towns, mining towns, villages and homesteads, the highlands to the lowlands. Rather than approaching these locations through direct documentation, the works engage with their lingering atmospheres and the traces of lived experience embedded within them.

The images themselves move between presence and absence. Episodic fragments of diverse landscapes appear and recede; evidence of man carved within the lands very form and shape refusing fixed narratives. What remains then is a sense of quiet dislocation – an often-unstable relationship between memory, place, and identity.

Produced as one – of – one silver gelatin prints, each image is shaped through a slow, manual darkroom process. This method resists the reproducibility typically associated with modern photography, allowing the work to exist as a singular object. In this context, materiality becomes integral: the surface of the print carries not only the images, but also the marks of its making.

In this way, the work extends beyond its specific context, engaging broader questions of belonging and the fragile construction of memory.