Born in Norfolk some may say that I’ve never really been cut out for the city. My personal photographic work reflects this, as it stems from conceptual forays into understanding what it is that constitutes the idea of ‘home’.
I am currently undergoing three large scale projects that express this dissonance, which affects at the very base level the way in which we understand the world, and as a result photograph it.
Each of these projects take place in a different stance within a continuum of ‘place’ and together express the disparity between three distinct photographic perspectives. These namely are, ‘Home’, ‘Flux’ and ‘Elsewhere’. I believe these stances greatly affect how we make images.
My work is more often than not cropped into 1×1 tiles, which in a sense petrifies the work within the frame allowing it to become a discrete unit of expression amongst it’s peers. Since all three projects utilize this format, it in a sense, converges them as a cohesive body of work. This is also mirrored in the consistency of my style.
I have come to realise have some fairly unconventional ideas about photography itself and specifically the expression and understanding of an ‘optical truth’ and an increasingly diffracted reality. Because of this I am a very keen reader into all types of photography and furthermore the way in which my peers express their work, (to varying degrees of success).
I have only been creating images in this way for a year after initially indulging in film-making, (specifically editing) as a primary concern previously. However, it has become clear to me that though the process of creation, images are a far more intuitive form of communicating my ideas, and on top of that much more satisfying.
Furthermore to my personal work, I am also engaging in writing up and reading around photography as a matter of interest.
I am very much still a developing outsider photographer, but I cannot wait to see what I have created and the conclusions I have come to in fifty years time.
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