statement

Photography is a medium I choose to help express an underlying quality of a place at the same time mirroring my own sub-conscious. When I photograph I spend a period of time within that space, it allows me to see past the obvious and gain a deeper connection to the subject. The initial recording is an intuitive experience; I am aware of the minds constant bombardment to one’s senses and try to quieten any logical explanations at that period. I immerse myself into the landscape and photograph what I am drawn to. It is only with postproduction that I start to reflect and conclude my time within the space. Questions and insights come to surface, which inform my edit.
I have always been fascinated by Psychology and I find working in the way I do I gain a deeper understanding of myself through my work. I find that photography helps me step out of the rational mind and allows my sub-conscious to intuitively react; this projects a sense of self onto the world, and is thus mirrored back through the image. I believe it is not so much the subject matter that informs you but the emotive response one connects too while experiencing these images. There is a meditate quality that keeps you looking even though you’ve seen.

‘ We don’t see things as they are, but rather as we are’ Anais Nin

I want my work to not only touch the soul but to translate it. I find that keeping integrity to the way I work somehow captures an essence of a feeling, which I hope translates to the viewer.

C.V

Foundation Art and design – City and Guilds London 2002

OSB Gallery 2004 Ireland

BA Honours Editorial Photography University of Brighton 2005

The Barge House – OXO Tower London 2005

Published Royal Photographic Journal Nov 2005

Start Gallery Solo show 2005 Brighton

Affordable Art Fair London 2006
Represented by Victor Felix Gallery

Rathsallagh House Solo show Ireland April 2006