MOON . UNDERGROUND . MOTORWAY . FIREWORKS . BERLIN

Digital photography has allowed me to experiment liberally with the medium, as there is negligible cost in taking multiple shots; I took random shots whilst walking or in vehicles, on trips abroad, in stimulating or mundane environments, documenting both the spectacular and the reality of the everyday. I often used long exposures, creating chaotic light patterns on night time motorways, in underground systems, or with fireworks. In another series I took pictures of the moon with 3 second exposures, moving the camera to create an effect of drawing with the moonlight, many of the resulting black and white images reminiscent of linguistic symbols. Please note that none of the images included here have been digitally manipulated, other than some crops and minor adjustments of contrast etc.

With large memory capacity I was able to take large numbers of photographs. From a trip to Berlin and Amsterdam, I printed over 3,000 thumbnails, including all of the shots I had taken, as a photographic diary of the whole journey, mounted as a frieze along a wall. Sometimes by selecting specific subjects, sometimes tracking my eye movement, sometimes shooting without paying attention to the subject, I created a record of the multiple images we take in every day whilst barely registering them.

My experimental approach to photography produced the series of still images which were animated to become the basis of the installation Walking, Drawing, Virus, The Allopathic Paradigm And The Organismic Valuing Process (2008).