‘… Aftermaths Within a Space’ is a book by Stephen Elvidge of photography and artwork of the individual images created during film-making for 'Memories in Place' (which can be viewed on YouTube and his personal website), that started as looking at how memories fade through time; and has been developing from the literal to the ephemeral that attempts to show representations, portraits in absence, aftermaths within a space, and a signifier of something that is recalled (when confronted by recent bereavements of both parents and his older brother).

Much of the work was set in the council house where he was born (Clifton Estate, Nottingham), and his parents had lived in for over 50 years. He tried to document his parent’s presence, through projected texts and images; signs of faded occupation. Now these images form an archive, and his response can no longer be from first-hand experience; with his parents or the house.

As an artist/photographer working with retrieval of memory he is creating ‘events’ in which the work searches for its own context and boundaries; it is time itself that is revealed and experienced as the central subject. Since all narratives reference time, he uses these techniques to remind the viewer of their own story and experience of time.

The film 'Memories in Place' attempts to show absence/presence in process; these visuals (combined with a recording of one of the last conversations he had with his father – who was in a care home shortly before his death. Numerous strokes had brought on early onset dementia, which affected his own memory retrieval and inhibited his speech) show the interplay between images appearing/disappearing - replicating our own retrieval of memory.