Hi fam,
Most photographers think their archive is a storage problem.
Too many images. No system. Chaos.
But your archive is actually a diagnostic. It knows your obsessions before you consciously do. 🙂
I want to talk specifically about the abandoned projects.
The series you started three years ago and stopped. The body of work you described as “not ready” or “not developed enough.” The folder you keep meaning to return to but never do.
In my experience, the abandoned project is almost always the most important one.
Not the one you finished and published. The one you couldn't finish. Why?
Because finishing requires clarity, knowing what the project is about, who it's for, where it ends. And if you abandoned it, you likely got close enough to the real subject to feel scared. Close enough to the wound, the question, the thing you're actually trying to say.
And then you stopped.
That stopping point is the most important piece of information your archive holds.
What was the last image you made before you put it down?
What question were you circling that you weren't ready to answer?
The project isn't gone. It's waiting.
And it's usually the one that (when finally finished) changes everything.
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Lola