Memorandum is a book that uses photography, biographies, and collection material to recount stories. It is a project about things that were remembered, photographs that were carefully stored and conversations that must never be forgotten.

The project consisted of me attending and running a weekly storytelling workshop for seniors at a respite centre in Brisbane, where I photographed and recorded participants’ life stories. I was also entrusted with their photographic archives, which I scanned, and supplemented with photographs from the State Library of Queensland's collection to further illustrate their stories. The book is organised into seven chapters separated by blue pages and a title. Each chapter consists of a series of vertical format colour portraits of the participants on the right-hand pages, with old photographs on the left. An appendix contains entirely text; there, the life stories of the characters are printed, along with the caption details of each photograph that appears in the book.

Memorandum