Behind the Archive stands photographer and storyteller Christopher Salaheddine Melzig, who began this path in 2014 on a volcanic island where the silence was louder than words.

Since then, the Archive has quietly expanded across cities, coasts, and landscapes — not to collect images, but to preserve atmosphere, memory, and light.

For me, photography has never been about equipment alone — but about resonance:

the way a place, a shadow, or a fleeting encounter can stay with us long after the moment has passed.

Each frame is less a record than a presence — a fragment that carries stillness and depth into the everyday.