This short project was inspired by a written evocation of place, the memories of a city with a complicated history and complex identity. The starting point of the project was “Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere”, written by Jan Morris. Through photographic practice, the project aims to capture the dualities, contradictions, and indeterminacy of a city’s character and place. Taken in Trieste in summer 2023, the images were taken in response to the themes of the text, as well as photography’s themes of light, truth, time and memory. Black and white, medium-format, film photography was used for its dreamlike, nostalgic and melancholic qualities. The series extends the notion of ‘placelessness’ in Morris’ writing to a ‘timelessness’. These captured moments of lived experience are extracted from their time and place, becoming glimpses of ‘nowhere’, scenes recorded in an ‘unreality’ unanchored from concrete, temporal, visual frames of reference. The photographs are, simultaneously, an invitation to remember as well as an invitation to imagine, to conjure and construe a place and time. The photograph is both a document of record and a subjective evocation of a city, one whose identity is at large, an image of Morris’ “capital of nowhere”. Through the critical practice of photography, the city provides an allegory or personification of the complexities of identity and image. Trieste’s development is manifest in its built heritage, the diverse architectural styles and transitory cultural influences forming inspiration and backdrop to a continuum of literary fictions, factual histories and present-day events.