In Use is a collaborative project exploring Scottish object biographies through documentary storytelling. Working with Meg, I focused on how everyday objects reveal layered histories, from their making and circulation to the personal and cultural meanings they gather over time.
The project combines still photography, video interviews and editorial design to document these narratives. We approached the work as both filmmakers and editors, shaping interviews and field recordings into a publication that sits between archive and essay. Our process was grounded in careful listening and observation: recording conversations, photographing objects in context and mapping connections between material culture and lived experience.
Through this, In Use became not only about the objects themselves but about the people, places and stories that bring them into focus. It shows how the ordinary can become a lens onto broader questions of memory, value and belonging.
The project combines still photography, video interviews and editorial design to document these narratives. We approached the work as both filmmakers and editors, shaping interviews and field recordings into a publication that sits between archive and essay. Our process was grounded in careful listening and observation: recording conversations, photographing objects in context and mapping connections between material culture and lived experience.
Through this, In Use became not only about the objects themselves but about the people, places and stories that bring them into focus. It shows how the ordinary can become a lens onto broader questions of memory, value and belonging.
