Jessica Shirley, Broadgreen (PEOPLE 2025)

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This photograph captures the space between presence and absence. It features a faceless, alien-like figure in an early 19th-century bedroom. Taken at Broadgreen Historic House, Nelson, New Zealand, it uses a slow shutter speed to create a sense of ethereal movement, as if the figure exists between worlds. “I was here, but I am no longer,” the scene seems to say. The technique emphasises the transitory nature of memory and time, while the faceless figure raises questions about identity.

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