Artist Statement

For me, creating work is mostly the act of looking more closely, or paying more attention. Something in my surroundings - often something I have walked past many times without noticing it - will invite me to look again.

Only in framing a subject and freezing it, will its meaning - the reason for having photographed it - reveal itself to me.

Whether it's the corners of rooms, or haystacks standing in an open field, or people's feet in public spaces, my subjects teach me something new about the world and my place in it; the way the corners of a room (Infinite) evoke our perennial human need to master our surroundings; the way a stack of hay bales (Comfort Zone) is a kind of monument marking the early Anthropocene when we humans began to change the environment; the way the space in between us (Spare) can conjure both our connectedness and our aloneness.