Photographs

Reverse side of original cigarette card. Reverses are always presented with my recreations.

Photography has always been the most important component of my practice.  It informs the way I think about practices of looking and representation.

Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs (2009)

Re-creations of found 1939 cigarette cards, using myself.   Commenced in 2005, this project marked a change in direction of my thinking that continues into my PhD.  I always present these photographs with the corresponding reverse of the original cigarette cards (see example left).

I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)

A multiple (edition of 100), composed of specially made red-satin lined boxes with fibre-based prints from negatives found in a Parisian flea-market.  A central portion of each photograph has carefully been removed with a scalpel.  The intention is that box might live on a bookshelf, taken down from time to time, so that the unknown image my be contemplated, and stories imagined; all possibilities are permitted.  Boxes still available, email me for prices.

Food photographs (Ongoing)

I first photographed a meal out in 2000.  It became a continuous practice in 2004.  There are rules to involved; I photograph after I have started eating, only plates from which I have eaten with the camera positioned in the place at which I see the plate on the table.  Although I have shown this work at CalArts, I am not sure why I do this now.  It is simply a compulsion.