This project explores the father–son relationship through photography as a medium of communication, memory, and emotional reconstruction.

Built around family negatives taken by my father during my childhood and adolescence, the work revisits personal archives through the lens of the present. The original negatives were enlarged in the darkroom and combined with a handmade family album, positioning me simultaneously as both narrator and archivist.

The project reflects on the fragmented nature of memory, the absence of images, and photography's ability to shape our understanding of personal history. Rather than documenting the past, it questions how photographs influence what we remember, what we forget, and what remains impossible to reconstruct.

Presented as an installation resembling a child's bedroom, the exhibition invited visitors to engage with the album from a child's perspective. A darkroom self-portrait and a documentary film accompanying the installation revealed the creative process behind the work, extending the narrative beyond the photographs themselves.

The project intentionally remains unfinished. As the album progresses, photographs gradually disappear, leaving only written descriptions of moments that have yet to happen—future memories waiting to be experienced and archived.

Created as my Bachelor's graduation project at the Warsaw Film School, the work marks an important step in my ongoing exploration of photography as both a documentary and conceptual medium.