Absence of a subject
Imperfect's Showcasing Invisible Artworks talks about absence and intangibility as a source of meaning in an artwork. My first idea of that is a blank canvas and the artist statement talks about what the lack of paint on the canvas means.
But I am also a photographer. The main point of absence I have felt in my photos are ones that don't have a subject or anything really interesting going on. Often I have just taken the shot and told myself that the absence of a subject is a subject in and of itself. But this isn't exactly the kind of photo I go out searching for.
"Displaced from its usualy spot"
This makes me think not just of a composition that is missing a subject that was never there. But a composition that no longer has a subject. My current project is about slowness and reflection. I think a shot where you are expecting to see something and you don't is reflective.
A specific example I have is an empty street, but particularly a large street that usually would have cars on it. Or a waterfall in summer with no water. This does however bring up the logistics of getting these shots - Winter is around the corner in Australia, and how exactly do you clear a large street? Wait until night time.
But making the shot reflective is just as much sequencing the series as it is taking the shot.