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My practice utilises found mobile photographs to explore the space between presence and absence, authorship and anonymity. By selecting and recomposing these images, my work questions ethical concerns around digital image-making and the abundance of forgotten visual data.

The works in this exhibition are solar plate prints made from found mobile phone photos, sourced from camera rolls not my own. Each print features an embossed serial number from the original device, linking it to a specific but untraceable source. This tactile mark suggests presence and hints at ownership without revealing identity. The ambiguity reflects the work’s central question: who owns a memory or image once it enters the endless digital archive?

The prints reflect on invisibility, digital traces, and how we look in today’s world. They sit between belonging and displacement, quietly exploring what it means to see and be seen in a time of constant, untraceable image-making.

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Selecting the images

500 photographs were collected from 40 different camera rolls. Through a careful and strategic curation 20 images were chosen for the final selection.