Photography

Photography for me is conceptual painting; a picture in or of physical motion; a moment captured in light and colour. My photographic works are studies, like components of a sketchbook or a document that captures a moment in an urban/architectural space crowds or a landscape.

From 1988 – 1996 my photographs recorded images of passengers in public spaces that often captured their (and my) fleeting psychological responses as the expression of a fragment of time. Chance processes change the moment of time captured by the picture. After the photograph is captured, it becomes another picture and the image takes on another meaning.

In another series, I photographed black / white and in colour pictures on art and architecture throughout Europe, surveying works in the new museum boom in Germany. I photographed the contemporary art display as a cohesive interface of materials developing a new aesthetic from another aesthetic. These photographs create a virtual space from the concrete forms of architecture disrupting photographic evidence as proof of surface. There are several hundred black and white photographs in this series.

Over the last two or three years I have also become interested in the Australian landscape. The Canola fields in South Australia, which I photographed across various locations, may signal ‘crunch time’ for the introduction of genetically modified food into Australia. These abstract ‘painted photographs’ are composed of blurred fragments and become the palette of colour and movement.

All works are printed on metallic paper 7 cm x 10 cm to retain the intimacy when looking through the camera viewer.