How to Be Seen Quickly

Digital collage / portrait photography / archive
c. 2016

Portrait photographs assembled with fragments of recognised artworks. The accompanying text considers borrowed authority: the cultural recognition and public attention that enter a new image with its borrowed source.

Mycophobia

Liquid acrylic on photographic prints / archive
2020 · revisited 2026

During lockdown, older model portraits were covered with liquid acrylic and later interpreted through a commissioned text about mould and fungi. The project records a return to art through material pleasure and an early attempt to delegate the language of the work to someone else.

Light as Interference

Digital photography through handmade lenses and optical filters / in-camera colour replacement
2021

A return to Nansen Street in Rostov-on-Don, remembered as wild and charged, meets an unexpectedly ordinary landscape. Fourteen photographs use handmade optics, sunlight and in-camera colour replacement to make recognition flicker between houses, garages, passing bodies and near-abstraction.

The View Is a Vehicle

Digital photography / train window / colour interference
2020

Ten photographs made through a train window. Movement, glass and the camera repeatedly alter the landscape, cutting, reflecting, smearing and recolouring it before the final image turns towards the empty carriage from which the sequence was seen.