Kathryn Baldacchino's exhibition Lostography: A passage through time will feature a selection of 17 photographs, analogue prints, digital colour photographs, and black‑and‑white photographs, displayed across three rooms, with the progress through the rooms offering "a simple sense of progression through different photographic approaches". These photographs were produced during different phases of Baldacchino's photographic practice and span analogue, digital, colour, and black‑and‑white formats, in order to "explore how photography records what stays and what disappears over time", in Baldacchino's words.

Baldacchino works using analogue film, darkroom printing, and digital photography, exploring different uses of the medium. She shoots, develops, and prints the analogue photographs by hand, while digital work allows for greater exploration of colour and editing techniques. Across both analogue and digital formats, the images that she chooses to bring into the frame are those that bear witness to the passing of time: "I focus on quiet details and the marks left by time."

The exhibition's themes cluster around memory, time, loss, and traces, becoming a photographic "record" of how moments repeat, shift, or fade. The photographs move between natural and built environments, reflecting on what photography preserves, while also documenting disappearances. In Susan Sontag's words (1977): "all photographs testify to time's relentless melt" - even as they strive to hold an image.

While all the photographs are connected to the central theme, each photograph can also stand alone: the photographs are "carefully selected so that each holds its own atmosphere". Baldacchino curates the exhibition of her photographs to structure the visitors' experience: starting from the "colour room, where the work feels alive and present"; moving into the room containing black‑and‑white digital photographs, where the atmosphere is "quieter, more static, architectural". The analogue prints are displayed in the final room, and here, "the slower, tactile qualities of film become more noticeable". Baldacchino's photographs subtly guide the viewer, in their passage through time. Baldacchino notes that the exhibition ultimately also offers a reflection on photography as a medium, exploring in sequence "how colour, digital black‑and‑white, and analogue film each handle light, texture, and presence".

Lostography, a solo exhibition by Kathryn Baldacchino, is on from 27 July to 2 August in the Basement Vaults of the Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de La Salle, 219 Republic Street, Valletta. The official opening is on Monday, 27 July at 6.30pm. The exhibition is open Tuesday to Thursday, 28 - 30 July: 9am to noon; 5 - 8pm; Friday, 31 July: 9am to 7pm; Saturday & Sunday, 1 - 2 August: 9am to noon. Admission is free.

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