When going away to a place I don’t normally inhabit, I buy a disposable camera. This camera is used to record aspects of the journey on route and upon arrival. When all these frames have expired I find a quiet location, sheltered by trees to bury the camera. An ‘X’ I marked into the bark of the tree closest to the camera.

These cameras will remain buried until when or if I return. Each location, its weather conditions, the spaces use, minerals, and other material in the soil will have a direct influence on the latent images I discard of there, as will the length of absence.

I buried the first camera in Bratislava on 5th April 2009. Since then I have retrieved five cameras from different locations. Aside from the varying environmental effects on the different films, the recovery of these images brings back very specific memories surrounding my life at the time of exposure. This emphasises the brevity of periods in time. People and circumstances that were part of my life have faded and in places changed into something new as the film has.