SPALTER
2023.12.25

ARCHIVE 1



Independent, Photography

Archive, Volume 01
Field Anthology - Temporal Register

I created this book to archive my summer. In an age where photographs often remain confined to phones or cloud storage—easily forgotten or overlooked—I wanted to offer something more tangible, a deliberate space to engage with the moments I paused to appreciate. These pages reflect the places, people, and small details that deepen my appreciation for life.



2024.12.25

ARCHIVE 2



Independent, Photography

Archive, Volume 02: HANT
Field Anthology - Temporal Register

This is the second volume of Archive, a book I started last year to collect and share photographs from the summer. This time, it isn’t tied to a season. I’d like to turn Archive into an annual tradition—a way to hold onto the small moments I stop for. I’ve called this one HANT—for the way certain moments stay with me, even when I don’t know if they will last.

I’ve never had a reliable memory. Most of my life slips away, or rearranges itself over time. The further back I look, the less I trust what I find there. But my mind still works in images—fragments of places, textures, light, the shape of someone’s hand. These things feel real, but they drift.

Photographs feel different. They’re material—fixed, even if they only ever show a single instance. They hold memory in place when the rest of it is moving, reshaping, forgetting. Maybe that’s why I come back to them. The things we keep—the objects, the photographs, the marks—stand in for what our bodies can’t always hold onto.

These pages gather a few of those instances. Small things I noticed, stopped for, carried home. Like anything that haunts, they aren’t always solid, but they leave an imprint. They remain in some way.