Lumino-City, Reflection Series, 1 (Blue)
My work aims to gain insight into how a unified sense of time is reconciled with the fractured nature of urban temporality. Fusing artistic photographic practice and sociological theory to interrogate the virtual realm of the city, my images attempt to present a nuanced reading of the everyday urban sphere, de-familiarising the everyday in the tradition of Surrealism and transforming the mundane into the sublime. My aim is to make apparent unnoticed or unconscious everyday activities in order to examine the relationship between the individual and the whole of the city.
Much of my recent work uses the moving image as the basis for this investigation (see the video below). By breaking down moving images into stills and examining the relationship between the still and moving image, I interrogate the ways that moving images can help us to understand the relationship between the parts and the whole. My latest photographic projects (Lumino-City, Panoramas of Time and Difference and Repetition) each explore a different yet interrelated element of perception from a nuanced perspective in order to disrupt existing notions of these elements.