Artist Statement
My practice consists of photographing architecture, interiors, exteriors and the urban landscape whereby I attempt to convey a particular narrative within a space. I take into consideration a number of factors before I decide the outcome of the photograph, which include, assessing the space and light available; I consider the photograph from varying perspectives and I look at how I can exploit line and form in order to reveal a particular composition. In each photograph I make, I want the image to be seen as a vessel which is capable of communicating ‘something more’.
The photographs I create aim to construct a certain scenario rather than document reality. I use very minimal props and hardly any other equipment apart from myself and my camera. Every time I go to photograph a space, I am interested in seeing how the language of photography can depict a completely different scene to the one that is visible through the human eye. The camera gives me the opportunity to dissolve the boundaries of architectural photography and create unlimited artistic compositions within a single space.
As an extension to this, I transform my photographs into another stage of visualisation. Using the Kelvin scale which is used to measure the colour of light in photography, I use editing software to fill in these areas of colour on my photograph, which are always shot in black and white because I believe this offers another dimension to the photograph’s interpretation. In addition, I re-create a blueprint of the space and I print each of these versions onto pieces of acetate. The final stage is where I layer these one on top of the other, which results in a 3D representation of the initial photograph.
I am greatly influenced by architectural photographers Ezra Stoller and Julius Shulman where a lot of their photographs were visually heightened by a decisive decision to distort the camera from a particular viewpoint and thus creating some of the finest architectural photographs.
