Sorting is often seen as a mechanical task. In practice, it is where the archive begins to take form. At first, there is volume. Stacks of photographs. Albums of varying sizes. Images without a clear order. The instinct is often to organize quickly... to impose structure. But careful sorting is slower. It involves looking, pausing, and allowing relationships to emerge: A recurring location. A familiar face across different years. Events that begin to group themselves naturall

Handling photographs is a quiet discipline. It requires attention to small things: Clean hands. Dry surfaces. Gentle movement. But beyond technique, it requires a certain state of mind. To handle a photograph is to hold something that has already passed through time. It has been kept for a reason, even if that reason is no longer remembered. Some photographs are carefully preserved. Others show signs or wear... fingerprints, creases, fading. These marks are not flaws. They ar

There is a moment, at the beginning of every archive, where the materials are simply gathered. Albums. Loose photographs. Envelopes. Documents placed aside for another time. They arrive without structure, but not without meaning. Each photograph has already lived a life... handled, kept, moved, sometimes forgotten. Some are carefully placed in albums, others kept loose, as if waiting to be returned to something more permanent. The work begins not organizing, but by observing.