This ongoing series of analog images, taken on various 35mm cameras, is inspired by the poem “At the Grave of the Forgotten” by Effie Waller Smith.

My interest in history and genealogy has always led me to explore graveyards, a tradition that commenced in my childhood, accompanying my father every November to ‘visit the graves’.

I view cemeteries not as macabre places, but as poignant reminders that every life matters. Each had its own story, and yes—someone, at one point, loved each person who lies ‘neath this earth.

“Passing stranger, pity not
Him who lies here, all forgot,
‘Neath this earth;
Some one loved him—more can fall
To no mortal. Love is all
Life is worth.”