In Passing

In Passing is a diaristic response to a journey through the Andes, made with my mum during a break in my final year of study. We travelled by bus from Santiago to Buenos Aires, and although the trip began as time away from my main project (Halfway Home), it naturally became an extension of it. My mum wrote the text, and I photographed – forming a collaboration shaped by the experience of travelling together. The work reflects on movement, observation, and pause, while continuing my wider interest in family and place.

Below is a selection of pages from the final print, alongside digital versions of my favourite images.

The front cover of the book with a view of a jagged mountain peak framed by the bus window.

Front Cover

The book is hand-bound using exposed chain stitch, with a printed textile hard cover that opens fully to reveal the spine. It’s printed on matt uncoated paper using an entirely manual production process. The materials and visible construction reflect the project’s themes—durational movement, glimpses, and the physicality of passing through.
View through a glass door of a high-rise apartment, looking out over Santiago’s dense skyline with mountains in the distance.

Santiago Window

The start of the journey. This is the view from my room before the bus ride began.
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A young man sleeps against the window of a long-distance coach, blue curtain half drawn.

Someone's Normal

One of many local passengers during the 24-hour journey who slept through most of it.
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Yellow concrete supports form a repetitive colonnade beside a rocky hillside, seen from inside a bus.

Mountain Tunnel Structure

These yellow frames show the mountain beyond the tunnel up.
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An empty ski lift stretches across a rocky plateau with a road and truck in the background.

Off-Season

Infrastructure adapted to terrain—out-of-use ski lifts hint at another seasonal layer to the landscape. Shot from the bus near the Chile–Argentina border.
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A zigzagging yellow-covered structure cuts across a steep rocky slope in the Andes.

Covered Switchbacks

The shelter reappears here in full – its repetition mirrors the snaking switchbacks carved into the rock. A feat of mountain road engineering.
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A streetlamp bends against the backdrop of a rocky mountain ridge under a clear blue sky.

Lamppost at the Border

A surreal collision of infrastructure and landscape – this lamp marks a transition from Chile to Argentina.
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A leafy public park with palm trees frames high-rise flats in the centre of Santiago.

Cerro Santa Lucía

The day we arrived in Chile. This was one of the first places we walked through in Santiago, scouting routes and adjusting to the shift in light and scale.
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