Uncounted

The project “Uncounted” explores images that emerge at the limits of the photographic system. These frames appear at the beginning and end of a roll of film, when the camera does not yet or no longer register an image as a complete photograph. Partially overexposed, cropped, and lacking a compositional center, they exist outside the author’s intention and fall beyond the conventional logic of photography.

Initially, the project examined the autonomy of the image and the possibility of a photograph existing beyond the author’s control. In the process, however, these images began to be perceived as a kind of landscapes of memory. Like memories, they preserve space only partially: as fragments, patches of light, losses, and voids.

Devoid of clear boundaries and stable structures, these images recall the workings of memory, which rarely preserves a place in its entirety. Memory exists as a collection of individual details, accidental fragments, and indistinct outlines. Overexposure, damage, and empty areas of film become not an error, but a form of presence of what is absent.

The project proposes viewing landscape not as an image of a specific place, but as a space emerging at the boundary between appearance and disappearance. These frames, unregistered by the camera, become evidence of what remains beyond systems of recording and control, preserving traces of a space that can neither be fully reconstructed nor completely lost.