Everyone knows the feeling of leaving something unfinished.
A half-written novel. A business idea scribbled into a notebook. A hobby abandoned after the excitement fades. In my own life as a documentary photographer, I’ve started countless projects that never fully materialized. Some stories lose momentum. Others wait years before revealing what they are really about.
Long before I understood the scale of it, I kept meeting people who had left college without a degree. I kept hearing versions of the same story: people would explain where they had landed in life by tracing it back to the moment college became impossible to finish.
