Current work

This series investigates the interrelationship and tension between photography and cinema in conveying a sense of time, space and story-telling. The narrative is invented, though inspired by autobiographical events. The viewer is encouraged to feel they are part of this sequence of events; a character in the unfolding story. It is more a collection of flashback moments or fragmented memories than an explicit plot. As one memory is recalled, so a completely unrelated image may come to mind.

      The formal considerations of the image: its colour, tone, abstraction evoke a mood or emotion rather than a documented fact. The grain of the film, the accidental light leaks, long exposures and multiple exposures – all give a certain depth and quality to the still image. The intention is that the photographs demand something of the viewer, and are quiet and understated but sensorial and evocative. Playing with notions of escape and confinement; ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, the viewer is taken on a journey in space and time. The images are filmic but have the advantage over cinema, that they can show the past, present and future simultaneously.

       I have been photographing spaces – the confines of the domestic space compared to the vast, yet ensnaring realms of the forest. I am concerned with the painterly qualities of the photograph – the subtle plays of light and colour. I am interested in exploring the emptiness of the frame, the tonal qualities of the photograph as an encounter with space. The images function as complete in themselves, but of vital importance is their juxtaposition and how they affect the images around them.