Photography and Film

Investigations into Sense of Place

2023-2024

Film

‘The Garden’
2023 – 2024

Filmed on a Samsung S21 Camera Phone
Best watched on full screen with headphones

I describe this as a ‘Slow Film’. It was filmed over the course of one year, capturing moments as they happened; those subtle moments and happenings that ‘make a place’. I use the term ‘moving stills’, I wanted to make a film which consisted of a number of still shots, as if they were photographs, but that the photographs were moving, moving with life. Not human life (although you can hear humans) as human presence would creative a narrative, which I did not want. Using POV techniques, the film portrays what I see, hear and experience when in my garden; when I am just ‘being’. When no one else is there, apart from my cat, who very much enjoys taking part in the process and being knowingly featured as a cameo or taking centre stage.

Photography

‘Garden Chair’
2023
Taken on Samsung S21 Camera Phone

‘The Sedums’
2023
Taken on a Samsung S21 Camera Phone

‘The Shadow of the Washing Line’
2023
Taken on a Samsung S21 Camera Phone

‘The Rainbow and the Standing Stones’
2023
Taken on a Samsung S21 Camera Phone

‘The Cloud and the Stone’
2023
Taken on a Samsung S21 Camera Phone

‘The Track’
2023
Taken on a Samsung S21 Camera Phone

‘Pylon’
2023
Taken on a Samsung S21 Camera Phone

Diarizing 2020 – Photographs and Gifs

Taken on a camera phone, over a period of seven months during 2020, these photographic images and gifs, manipulated and layered, explore emotionality, psychology and psychogeography, diarizing specific experiences or transient moments in time. Images contain snippets, personal timelines and blips in the day to day, edited and set in a diary that is layered with political reference points.