These photographs are created from a single image by overlaying it with its partially transparent copies in regular patterns. The shifting colors and repeating visual motifs remind me of stained glass and kaleidoscopes so popular in my childhood in Russia.
- November 2017
Is there a way to capture all of the surroundings of a particular object in a single image? Superimposing images of the background while keeping the subject fixed in effect erases the individuality of the subject by "averaging" it out through its different views and allows the background to come through.
These photographs were created by shooting each tree from a different position at the same distance and overlaying the images on top of one another.
The images remind me of Chinese tree paintings with branches drawn on the back of the paper, adding texture and dimensionality to the otherwise flat composition.
- November 2017
The Futurists insisted that the perceived world is in constant movement and this led them to depict fast-moving trains, cars, cyclists and even dogs on leashes, none of which would be unfamiliar on Morgan Street - a pretty tree-lined street in the East End full of proud 19th century Victorian terraces with well-kept front gardens. In the 100 years since the Futurist movement, technology has only sped up and the common response to withdraw into one's mobile has made the world appear even more impressionistic and fleeting.
- May 2015
At what point does a subject become unrecognizable and abstract? How does crossing this line from figurative to abstract representation change one's response to the image?
- March 2015
Is there anything to be gained in "seeing" an object by capturing one's approach to it?
These long exposure photographs were taken while walking in a clearing towards a row of trees in Victoria Park.
- December 2017
It never gets much below zero in London which means that you never see a pure white blanket of snow. However, the melting and cracking of the snow both reveals and obscures details of the undergrowth, subtly hinting at it as though viewed through frosted glass.
- December 2017
Each image in Sight Shift shows two identical copies with one layer slightly shifted and more transparent. This project presents the viewer with an uncomfortable images. At first the images appear unfocused - a visually taxing experience. And yet the images are quite sharp which presents an additional uncomfortable element as the viewer attempts to understand what exactly is going on. The project asks at what point does an image become uncomfortable and when does it cease to be a picture of a thing and becomes a representation of a thing and its shadow.
Palimpsest takes inspiration from Chinese nature painting which adds brushstrokes to the back of the partly transparent paper creating a kind of muted layer to the painting. Palimpsest plays with this technique by rotating the same image in place, creating a kind of imprint of a branch swaying in the wind.
