Fading Fauna

Fading Fauna intertwines memory, extinction and nature’s own archive. Using an innovative, sustainable, cameraless process, I exposed photographs of critically endangered animals directly onto tree leaves with the Sun’s UV light. These fragile, ephemeral images, preserved for only about a decade before they fade away and this fading serves as a metaphor for the disappearance of these species. Each leaf becomes both photograph and living witness, its slow erasure echoing the disappearance of life from our planet.