PHOTOGRAPHY

Go Self Yourself, 2019-2022

Heroic selfie poses at tourist sites. The posers rejoin the tradition of Greco-Roman sculpture: persona manifest as an image of ambition forced into public space, rather than the ‘chronicle of deeds’ of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Behind the statuesque selfie subjects loom the auspicious artefacts to which they seek to link their own fortunes. Taken in Italy, Sri Lanka, Oslo, Brussels and Dakar.

Cartesian Landscapes, 2020-2025

Locating and forcing lines, gradients, planes and angles into landscapes that for a brief moment verge on abstraction. The forced order of the landscape in the shot is undermined by creeping complexities: the meniscus of the water’s edge, the ship in rippled gradient of blue, the lossy blur in the symmetrical reflection of trees on river. Taken in Australia, Senegal, Norway, Ghana, Senegal and Crete.

Hyperabundance, 2019-2020

These shots capture cacophonous abundances of life and death, ordered and accelerated by asymmetrical wealth, labour laws and environmental protections. Taken in Moscow, The Hague, Norway, Senegal and Ghana.

Big Other, 2018-2025

Slivers of the façades of iconic and megastructural buildings, capturing moments of uncanny intimacy while looking up at them from beneath. Their enormity can be both overbearing and comforting, as artefacts of civic generosity, institutional provision and collective ambition. Taken in The Netherlands, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Sydney and Ghana.

Objects of Foreboding, 2019-2025

Lyrical scenes that speak of climate crisis and wealth inequality, containing objects whose appearance in the scene is rendered sinister. The foreboding elicits a response of temperament over ideology: passionate impatience or skeptical deferral. Taken in Japan, Italy, London, Greece, Senegal and France.