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Photography

Long before the arrival of the internet, smartphones, and instant access to images, I was lugging around my Minolta SLR, snapping photos, and developing them by hand in a darkroom I rented by the hour at a community center. It wasn't until 2017, when I decided to reinvent my relationship with dance, that I began to delve into image capture and image making as a significant part of my practice.

 

Using both digital and analogue photography, I endeavor to embody the movement of light, objects, and the body within the frame.

Analogue
Photograms
2022-present

A photogram is essentially a camera-less photograph that uses only light, objects and light sensitive paper. It is a darkroom process that became popular at the turn of the century as photography was taking off as a new and wondrous art form. It was also made popular by the art movements of Dada and Surrealism, and artists such as ManRay began making huge bodies of work using the technique, calling his pieces ‘rayographs’.

 

As we march headlong into an AI future I find myself becoming more enamoured by processes of the past. I love disappearing into the theatre of my darkroom, using found natural objects and the alchemy of light, with a good measure of the unknown, to create images that to a certain extent, have created themselves. Each of them so utterly unique and unrepeatable relying on the type of paper you use, the opaqueness and composition of the objects that obscure the light and the amount of time you expose the paper. All of these elements combine in any number of random configurations to create pieces that arrive, as if by magic, before your eyes.

Self portraiture
Digital photographs
2022-present

While I own a SLR camera most of my digital imagery is caught on my iphone. I am seduced by the spontaneity and the convenience. Also, pragmatically, without a huge set up I am able to remain somewhat inconspicuous in public outdoor spaces.

 

While my eye is drawn to numerous subjects and places and things, in keeping with my previous incarnation as a solo dance maker, the majority of my images are self portraits.

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