I have been using digital photography as my chosen medium in visual art since 2001. My bodies of work are primarily based on abandoned spaces, empty buildings and run-down architecture. I feel it is necessary to capture the void and a life which had been left behind, yet still vital. These particular works illustrate the journey and process which is undertaken when entering these spaces, whether it be an old hospital, boarding house or residential space. I have previously worked within the industry in fashion, portraiture, architecture and landscape photography. My main aim in my work is to show a notion of a void and to create a space and a journey within another space. Conceptually my practice aligns with concerns of the forensic aesthetic. Focusing on surface description and aesthetic aftermath, I aim to trace the irregular, used, abandoned and destroyed. Intending to engage the spectator in an exercise of mental re-enactment and investigative interpretation, each scene is photographed as a type of evidence, a visual clue to absent meanings and prior events. The specific isolation of the depicted environments, void of human presence and the notion that my images are a type of surveillance and investigation are part of my process. I am fascinated with the scene of the past occurrences and all that it can suggest, the presence and absence of meaning, occasionally banal, yet overwhelming with its aura.
I have been inspired and driven to create bodies of work within this theme by artists and their series such as Tamara Dean – Ritualism, 2009, Francesca Rosa – Interior Disaster, 2007, Glenn Sloggett – Cheaper & Deeper, 1996-98, Martin Mischkulnig, Trent Parke, Sally Mann, Burt Glinn, Markus Jokela, Gerrit Fokkema and Joel Meyerowitz.
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