Case Study / Selected Work

The Missing Roll

The Missing Roll

The Missing Roll

The Missing Roll is a publication and wall installation exploring memory, absence and the loss of personal photographs.


Built around the structure of a 36-frame film roll, the project turns missing images into a sequence of questions, fragments of text, photographs and empty space.

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.

The project turns missing photographs into a physical reading experience.

The project turns missing photographs into a physical reading experience.

Each frame in the roll corresponds to a missing photograph — some replaced by a single line of text, others left as raised, empty panels on the wall. The sequence moves through four chapters: Before, The Break, What I Carry, and Missing, tracing a personal timeline from before the war in Ukraine to the present.


The physical edition mirrors this structure: pages that ask a question instead of showing an image, spreads that hold only a date and a time, and a small number of photographs that did survive — placed exactly where they matter most.

Project System

36-frame roll
Text fragments
Empty image spaces
Wall installation