Visible Absence is rooted in Cambodia in the aftermath of the genocide that devastated the country between 1975 and 1979. Thousands of people were displaced to refugee camps established along the Thai border, including Khao I Dang.

Drawing on a corpus of humanitarian photographs from the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the publication examines how memory is constructed through processes of selection, narration, and visibility. These documents raise questions about what can or should be shown, and about the effects produced by images marked by violence. They are placed in dialogue with testimonies from survivors, offering a perspective on the historical narrative while revealing its limits, blind spots, and silences.

Visible Absence reflects on what memory preserves, erases, or leaves unresolved, and on how design can make its invisible dimensions perceptible.