Topographies of Memory

This project explores the energy inhabiting familiar spaces through the abstraction of light and motion, disrupting perception to reveal layers of resonance and meaning. It invites a slower, more attentive way of seeing places we pass through daily as time capsules of movement and memory.

Project Narrative

Creative Influence

The work considers how belief and personal experience shape our connection to surroundings, reflecting on the relationship between faith, self-identity, and shared histories embedded in physical space. Using two techniques of capturing light without compositional editing, it blurs the boundary between the tangible and the intangible, where past and present coexist, opening a space to contemplate how presence is felt as much as it is seen.

Night long exposure photography church with a glowing cross and light trails topographies of memory
Night long exposure photography church with a glowing cross and light trails topographies of memory

Selected works from Topographies were presented at the photography exhibition concluding the European Union and Jordan National Gallery photography residency programme, held at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in April 2026.

The photograph "Sanctuary" was acquired by a private collector in 2026.

©Afterimage by Farah