My photographic practice is rooted in narrative, fiction, and speculative storytelling, with a focus on science fiction and constructed worlds. Using photography and film, I create imagined narratives through atmosphere, character, props, and location.
I experiment with media archaeology and obsolete analogue and digital technologies, drawn to their imperfections and material qualities.
By using outdated devices to capture contemporary subjects, I disrupt the temporal reading of the image, blending past, present and speculative futures. My work combines research, imagination, and materiality to construct narratives where each image functions as a fragment of a larger story.
The Aesop Mechanism
The Aesop Mechanism is a speculative photography project that follows an individual constructing a new version of themselves, assembling a body from scraps of metal and obsolete technology.
The work explores the intensity of self-transformation—the desire for immediate, total change alongside the slower, more complex realities of inhabiting a body in flux. The act of rebuilding becomes both a form of self-determination and a confrontation with loss, as identity is dismantled and reconfigured.
Blurring the boundary between body and machine, The Aesop Mechanism considers how the self can be rebuilt, and what is lost or gained in the process. It invites viewers to reflect on the relationship between the body and identity, and whether transformation can ever fully resolve the tension between who we are and who we seek to become.
Distance over Memory by Time (D/MxT)
D/MxT examines and conceptualizes the idea of an alien lifeform discovering our existence. Using the 1977 Voyager Space Probe as an instrument of narrative, the story told in this project takes place via images of portraiture and landscapes set on an alien world, where the Voyager Probe’s golden discs are discovered by a species like our own.
D/MxT explores the idea of whether we are alone in the universe by chance, or by choice. Taking reference from the ‘Dark Forest’ hypothesis and the Fermi paradox, D/MxT proposes the idea that other civilisations may choose to keep quiet, as sharing any communication of their existence may prove to be a threat.
