This body of work not only reflects on the medium and process involves
in photography but also the culture I locate myself within, as processed
and viewed through the eyes of a camera. I appreciate the dualities involved
in photographic work—that something can appear as a truth and be fiction
and vice versa. Here I work against the compulsion to order or classify
by attempting to methodically document a certain set of criterions—a group
of feet walking from left to right in a peace march, or birds on wires,
and although it is possible to describe every picture in the same way,
the subtleties make each frame entirely unique. The order and whole that
a photograph purports to be is fragmented—it is a finite collection. It
is the contradictions within the worlds and within myself that I bring
with me to both the camera and the darkroom. |