About
About me
I am committed and impassioned photographer. My enthusiasm for photography has been a constant in my life since my first camera, bought with my sister, when I was 12 years old.
I have a keen interest in art and design, particularly the work of Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Piet Mondrian. I am also drawn to the enduring style and statement of Art Deco architecture and design.
As a photographer, my interests pivot around the elements of colour, shape, and shadow. I am influenced by the photography of our manmade environment, by the New Topographics photographers working in America during the 1970’s, such as Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, and Stephen Shore. The colour work of photographers Saul Leiter, Fred Herzog, and Keld Helmer-Petersen has also had an enduring influence on my practice.
My photographic practice constantly benefits from the knowledge and the greater understanding of the medium I have gained from both research and shared learning.
Artist Statement
Photographs of aspects of everyday life have a distinctive effect on society, by affecting us and shaping how we see our shared environments.
The legacy of 1970s American photography that emerged at a particular cultural moment and political climate remains a lively influence. Elevating seemingly simple photographic documents of the details of structures and surfaces to the same level of complexity expected of photographs of the social relationships between people, photographed in groups and individually is a fascination.
Rather than impossible ideas of universality, my ambition for photography is to elicit connections between people at the moment their attention is held by a detail or gesture or object, so conversation follows in a mix of personal recollections and lived experiences.