Artist's Statement

As a photographer, my interest is in implication rather declaration. I am drawn again and again to images that lack a single-point narrative, and for me the strongest images are those whose meanings are unresolved, those which can disquiet as well as please with their beauty; those which can conceal even as they reveal. In my work, questions are asked by voices that do not shout, and the relationship between photograph and viewer is much like the conversation that two people not well known to each other might engage in late at night – a kind of sotto voce exchange in which the participants are required to lean toward one another, quieten down, listen carefully. I work quite fast so that the process of thinking about making images, a pre-editorialising, does not unduly cloud my sightline. Up until the last two years I worked exclusively in 35mm format, predominantly with Kodak Infrared film, printing my own work from single negatives. Although I continue to scan film negatives for editing and printing digitally, recently I have begun to work also with digitally sourced images.