The Essays — Index
Notes, investigations, returns.
The main content engine of Parallax House — long-form writing on memory, photography, film, identity, queer culture, philosophy, travel, and personal investigations.
Memory
Evidence That We Were Here
Perhaps every photograph, every diary, every journey and every story ultimately attempts to answer the same question: what evidence will remain that we were here?
2026-06-08
12 min
Memory
Why Childhood Feels Like Another Country
An exploration of memory, childhood and identity through photography, travel and personal history. Why does childhood often feel less like a period of life and more like a foreign country we can never fully revisit?
2026-06-07
14 min
Photography
Why We Photograph the People We Fear Losing
Why do we photograph the people closest to us? A meditation on memory, family, love, loss and photography as an act of resistance against disappearance.
2026-06-07
14 min
Travel
The Places I Travel My Son To
A meditation on travel, memory and inheritance. Can a parent pass on places in the same way they pass on stories? An essay about journeys, belonging and the fragile geography of memory.
2026-06-07
14 min
Queer Culture
Photography and Queer Survival
An exploration of photography, queer history and survival. How images became evidence of existence, love and resistance for generations forced to live between visibility and secrecy.
2026-06-07
14 min
Photography
The Family Album as a Crime Scene
What if family photographs reveal less about what happened than about what was chosen to be remembered? A meditation on archives, absence, photography and the mysteries hidden inside family albums.
2026-06-07
15 min
Personal Investigations
The Photograph My Mother Didn't Expect to Find
A personal investigation into memory, photography and identity. What happens when a childhood photograph is removed from a family album and reappears in the world, waiting to be discovered by the person who once lived inside it?
2026-06-07
16 min
Memory
The People We Remember Incorrectly
Why do our memories of people change over time? A meditation on identity, photography, family history and the uneasy distance between the people we knew and the stories we tell about them.
2026-06-07
15 min
Memory
What Happens When Memory Disagrees With Reality
Can memory be trusted? A meditation on photographs, family history, competing narratives and the uneasy territory where recollection collides with evidence.
2026-06-07
15 min