Biography
Dylan Jugroop is a photographer and writer whose life’s work is the Moments Archive Project, a lifelong photographic archive documenting everyday life through sustained observation.
The project explores memory, place, and lived experience, capturing ordinary moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed. Rather than producing isolated images, it develops through long-term engagement with people, places, and the passage of time.
His photographs have been exhibited through The Grid Project and published in books produced by the late Dave Allan, whose encouragement and mentorship helped shape his development as a photographer.
Alongside his photographic practice, Dylan writes screenplays and essays. His feature screenplay, Bare, won the Feature Screenplay Award at the Moondance International Film Festival (2025). He also holds a Master’s degree in Film, where his experimental filmmaking helped develop the observational approach that continues to influence his photographic work today.
This website brings together the evolving Moments Archive Project, alongside his writing and selected screenplays.
Artist Statement
The Moments Archive Project is my lifelong photographic practice documenting everyday life through sustained observation.
I am interested in what remains visible when urgency is removed: small gestures, ordinary routines, overlooked places, and moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed. Rather than travelling in search of photographs, I build the work through lived experience.
The process is simple:
LIVE | MOVE | NOTICE | PHOTOGRAPH | KEEP MOVING
Observation is both a method and an ethic. I try to allow people and places to exist without explanation, performance, or intervention, making photographs that emerge from simply being there rather than directing events.
Alongside the photographs, I keep field notes that reflect on process, decision-making, and ways of looking. I also write screenplays that explore many of the same themes of observation, memory, and lived experience.
Together, these different forms of work are expressions of the same long-term practice: paying attention to everyday life.