unfinished

Unfinished is an analog photo-ethnographic project documenting in 35mm b&w the daily lives of the Cham community and family I have been living and working with. 

I had been an amateur photographer for many years at that point but never really made use of the photographs apart from regular cycles of distributions to participants themselves. 

Later, dust, humidity and displacement took a-hold of most the negatives. I still didn’t know what to make of the photographs. And I was growing disenchanted with both “thick ethnographic description” and humanist reportage. 

I took a break.

Time went by and I moved to full colors and medium format. 

The unfinished project remained just that: unfinished.