After the age of 14, Ahmed Abbadi could no longer see himself. He lost the ability to distinguish people’s faces. Everything around him began to fragment. Blurred vision and this limitation are what he now carries through this phase of his life. Six years ago, he was diagnosed with hereditary macular edema. According to the United States’ National Eye Institute, there is no definitive cure for hereditary macular edema. Speck is an attempt to understand that diagnosis, and to express the photographer’s personal experience with the condition and its definition.