Stillness

I move through life attentive to small signs of beauty and moments of connection. When something makes me stop and brings a sense of stillness, I photograph it.

I work with a camera obscura large enough to stand inside. Light reflected from the subject passes through the lens and falls directly onto a monumental sheet of colour photographic material. After processing, that same sheet becomes the finished photograph. There is no negative, digital file, enlargement, or reproducible master between the subject and the final work. Each photograph exists as a single physical original.

I approach each work as a painter might approach a canvas: the final surface is the original, and every image must stand on its own. Its story is contained within its making—the place, the encounter, the act of looking, and the moment light touched the surface.

The works range from 1.27 × 1.27 metres to approximately 1.27 × 2.2 metres.

The body of work grows one encounter at a time.