Primary practice is medium and large format film based

photography and occasional video. The results are

presented under a collective title of ‘Citizen Reality'

(.com)

Key themes surround exploration of how photography,

writing and video are intermediating and affecting the

perception of reality – to shape and influence our beliefs -

to an exponential degree. The pictures experiment with

provenance, edit / selection, title, and the contrasting

technologies of chemistry and electronics to create

ambiguous tableau narratives that illustrate the inherent

nebulousness of authenticity and truth.

There’s no hierarchy or boundary of subject matter – but

an aimless, calculated pursuit of satisfaction and control.

The visual syntax varies across projects & reflects a

compulsive, emotional and intuitive response to a

photographic addiction, confronted with overdose

quantities of material to sample.

The objective is to seduce & subvert the audience with

visual overload, to mimic the multi screen on demand

cocoon we live in - and its cinematic, projected reality.

The pictures are ‘real’ but vicariously so, and hyper real,

serendipitous or planned, appropriated or resurrected –

random, mimetic and algorithmic.

The pursuit metabolises the Blitzkrieg of tropes that

signify our time: identity bias, self promotion, satisfaction,

aesthetic, exoteric, information virality, chaos, moral

pluralism, cultural tribalism and misrepresentation /

[Kissinger’s] ‘constructive ambiguity’ gone mad: a

saturated panoply of hubris, 'Doublethink' and denial.

All characters and events depicted in the pictures are

fictitious and any similarity to real places or people, living

or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended. Nothing

you see here is real.