stilling history

Stilling History: An attempt at reciprocal photographic evocation through Cham images and absences
[ongoing project]

Stilling History is an ongoing project that deploys family photo albums and contemporary medium format stills taken among Cham Muslims in Cambodia. The project is embedded in a long-term multimodal anthropology fostering ethics, intimacy and resonance as a resistance to documentary and transparency regimes. Inscribed in a Cham method of history that withholds more than reveals, the project asks if photography can still our attunement towards evocation rather than representation so to collectively bear witness to erasures through opacity.