Aide-Mémoire: Through My Eyes historically explores the West Indian Diaspora into the United Kingdom, while highlighting the placement of Black fashion history into the contemporary transnational landscape and the importance of portrait photography as a visual narrative.

Jackson’s work aims to evoke nostalgia and build an emotion of vulnerability between the subject and viewer. The artist does not want their photography to be a projection of their experiences, rather, for the viewer to feel nostalgia and connection and relate to the visual narrative.