Two photographic works realised through books, prints and installation.
MOMENTS emerged from a growing desire to move away from the speed and excess through which photography is now commonly consumed.
The work was developed slowly. Many of the photographs were made through periods of waiting,
observation and return; moments where light, shadow, gesture and presence briefly aligned.
The separation into two volumes became essential to the structure of the work.
Black & White and Colour were not approached as alternative versions of the same seeing,
but as fundamentally different ways of experiencing the world.
The books are central to this experience. Images unfold through pacing, silence, scale and adjacency,
allowing relationships between photographs to emerge gradually across the sequence of pages.
The books ask the viewer to slow down.
Not simply to look at photographs, but to spend time with them.
The work is realised through multiple forms: artist books, paired editions, installation and archival photographic prints.
Each format has been approached as part of the overall structure of the project rather than as a separate outcome.
The installation concept extends this further by introducing physical space; a quiet island where the work may be encountered
as photographic objects in their own right, not simply as books.
A reading table, seating blocks, display structures and the handling of the books become part of the act of viewing itself.
Across all forms, the intention remains consistent: to create a quieter
and more deliberate engagement with photography.
The photographic prints extend the work beyond the page and into individual physical pieces. Released as carefully controlled archival editions,
the prints form part of the larger framework of the project rather than existing as isolated images.
In certain contexts, mounted prints may also become a surrounding backdrop to the reading island,
extending the visual atmosphere of the installation into the surrounding space.
