Elin Solberg talked through the physical difficulty of her practice long before she talked about the images themselves — the hours on open water, the frames that never made it home because a swell arrived at the wrong second. What emerged was less a photography talk than a study in deliberate loss: for every print on the wall, dozens of unrepeatable moments went unrecorded on purpose.
Priya Nair, whose own handwoven pieces take months rather than seconds, found more common ground with that idea than anyone expected. Both, it turned out, make work almost entirely out of things that can’t be redone.
“The best part of the coastline is the part I didn't manage to keep.”