About

‘Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.’ (Gabriel Garcia Márquez, 2004)

Having started my professional life as a theatre director, then working in film, my approach to photography draws from both. Using mixed-media and installation my aim is to recount not the life I have lived, but that which I remember.

Baudrillard talks of the violence of the image, the violence of the constant exposure to images and the neutralizing effect this has upon us, through a form of consensus and deregulation, a “transparency” that has made the real disappear through total visibility. All of human life is self-willingly exposed and made available, to the point that we have achieved perfect self-alienation. He asks if images resistant to this violence still exist: “This, for me, is the crucial issue in photography today. The idea is to resist the noise, the endless murmuring of the world by mobilizing photography’s silence; to resist movement, flow, and speed by using its stillness; to resist the explosion of information by brandishing its secrecy; and to resist the moral imperative of meaning by silencing its signification” (Baudrillard, 2008)