Biography
My work as a whole has tended to explore the photograph as a reference to the real rather than as a depiction of reality. In previous works I have been generally concerned with exploring a paradox between utopian and dystopian views of society through architecture and interior spaces. From pure white institutional spaces to views of urban decay and social dysfunction, from photographs of show homes and advertising ideology to eerily perfect interiors – there was always this desire to create an illusion of, or allusion to the real.
The recent shift in my practice comes from this questioning of the photographs capacity to represent reality. I am now making images that use photography to trace the presence of a person, space, thought or feeling rather than to represent it. Although I am reluctant to impose an approach to my images on the viewer I will say that there is always a technical or craft based methodology that makes photography part of the subject matter itself.
