Loss. The loss of a family member, a home, a way of life, or a part of yourself that quietly slipped away. Loss arrives in many forms. Sometimes sudden and catastrophic and sometimes so gradual that we only recognize it after the fact, when we look back and realize something essential has vanished. What remains are remnants: empty rooms, altered landscapes, objects that outlive the hands that once held them, and memories that grow heavier with time.

Photography has always carried a quiet relationship to loss. Every photograph is evidence of a moment that has already disappeared, a person who once stood beside you, or a place that may never exist in quite the same way again. In this sense, the medium itself becomes an act of remembrance, an attempt to hold still what time refuses to keep.

For this exhibition, we invite artists to explore how photography can give form to absence and loss through their art with a special twist: by providing a paragraph about what this person, place, moment, or object means to you and why. This is not required but highly encouraged.