The Absent Hours

Pieces of stories we don’t remember. Treasured belongings we’ve forgotten. Places we go when we’re neither here nor there. Things we never notice that have been here forever.

These photographs can be thought of as unfinished narratives that invite the viewer to fill in missing details—even invent a plausible story, where the action takes place somewhere outside of the frame.  

The images consider places where the natural and the human worlds intersect—spaces that may exist in the past, present or future…or perhaps only in the imagination. Like half-remembered dreams, they feature things ordinary and disconcerting, perhaps conjuring a response that remains mostly unspoken.

The 19th century photographic processes that were used to create these pictures can make them appear both familiar and strange at the same time, allowing them to exist outside of a definite moment.

Where does lost time go? Here are some of the places.