Archive for the 'On Photography' Category

• 12.01.10 Kia Ora
  

  I have put together a book of the series I worked on last year while staying in my grandparents’ house. I named it Kia Ora, after the street in which the house resides.

  
  
• 18.09.09 Somewhere Else
  

  The pastel blues, purples and pinks are so fleeting. I want to live somewhere with a prolonged twilight. Somewhere the sky reflects infinite colours of subtle variation. And the fairytale is prolonged.

  
  
• 06.08.09 The House That Neville Built – Part 2
  

  I don’t have many vivid memories of my grandfather. I sometimes wonder if I had photographed him, would it feel different to look at the pictures? Would I feel more connected?

  Even seeing myself in images as a child, I don’t feel a sense of familiarity. So it seems like a struggle to feel familiar with [...]

  
  
• 21.06.09 Personification
  

  Personification has always been somewhat of a fascination for me. The human brain operates by relating information to a database. It makes sense that in trying to understand the world around us we draw comparisons with what we know about ourselves.

  This process involves projecting human characteristics onto animals and inanimate objects. It is also possible [...]

  
  
• 21.06.09 Embrace the Random
  

  There is no such thing as perfection. No matter how much one strives for it, the goal can never be reached.

  Many take their fulfilment from the pursuit. Many are happy with near enough. Many are never fulfilled. Never being content with the first, I have always found myself alternating between the two latter options.

  
  
• 27.03.09 The House That Neville Built
  

  At 98 years old my grandmother could no longer look after herself and finally had to leave her house. Her husband, Neville, died about 10 years ago. He was a carpenter and built the house himself.

  It was also home to my mother and her four sibilings. I remember going to many family get-togethers with the [...]

  
  
• 01.03.09 Inner Confrontation
  

  A single moment of a person’s existence captured forever so that we can attempt to see further into their soul. A resolution matters little. It’s what we learn about human nature and ourselves along the way, which makes sharing this moment worthwhile.

  My dear friend and serial model Ashleigh shaved her head last year. She asked [...]

  
  
• 17.02.09 There’s No Poetry In Being Alone
  

  Loneliness may inspire poetry. Isolation may be a good time to write poetry. But there’s nothing poetic about the feeling of being alone.

  My image was used on the cover of a book entitled I Made You to Find Me by Jane Hedley.

  When the designer asked to use my image for a book on poetry, I [...]

  
  
• 25.01.09 The World In A Box
  

  Before the days of the handheld consumer camera there was a bit of a fad in buying these little viewing boxes with a lens and mirror where you could basically walk around holding it out to see the image on a little 2D plane. It sounds counter-intuative to us but we couldn’t understand, as today [...]

  
  
• 31.08.07 Patients
  

  “Patients” began from looking into photographic history and in particular post-mortem photographs. It’s a journey through the modern art timeline and an analysis of the portraiture canon.

  The portrait is traditionally an interaction between the viewer and the eyes of the actor.