I Want To Communicate

This series of themed photofraphs was taken to explore the dichotomy of isolation and connectivity through mobile phone use through individual portraits of people being solely illuminated by their devices to theatric effect.  The prints were displayed individually alongside each other and portrayed the subjects' expressions whose sole focus was on the soft glow emanating from their hand.  The essentially long exposures required each sitter to be totally rigid in their pose which, similar to mid-Victorian portrait photography, creates an hypnotic and almost emotionless stare from them through their determination not to move and create a blurred image.

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Stand - Studies of Glasgow's Kingston Bridge

These night time studies were all taken on a Yashica twin lens 6x6 medium format film camera and the resulting prints exhibited in Glasgow's King Street.   These 'freeway' constructions are described by David Byrne in his 1986 film, True Stories, as being the cathedrals of the modern age and I wanted to sharply portray these brutal but grandiose concrete structures in their ageing condition in the post-modernist age.  The car still reins supreme in Glasgow, a city both defined and dissected by the M8 motorway which soars over the river Clyde via the Kingston Bridge.