Archive

A meditation on how personal archives evolve — tying digital preservation to memory, mortality, and meaning.

We build archives to remember. To hold on to the moments that would otherwise dissolve into the noise of passing days. Yet in doing so, we confront a paradox: the act of preservation changes the very thing we are trying to preserve. Every photograph we keep becomes both artifact and filter — proof of what mattered once, and a quiet declaration of what did not.

Photography is, at its heart, an act of preservation. A photograph holds a moment still long after memory has begun to erode. Yet while the image may feel immutable, the way we keep and contextualize it is anything but permanent. Files move, formats change, devices fail, and without care, the record of a lifetime’s work can quietly dissolve into digital dust.

To photograph is to remember. To archive is to ensure that memory remains accessible—not just for others, but for ourselves.