Portrait photography can be a very intimate and alchemical experience. It’s a space to be felt & held in your soft human. A way to honour your process of transformation, and this very moment of time that you are in. An offering to whatever parts of you want to be witnessed by yourself & the lens.
I invite whatever expressions & feelings that want to emerge to be part of the experience, as we slow down to witness the parts of you that desire to be seen. I enjoy using natural lighting & nature-based settings to create a softness in my images, and to add an extra layer of holding to the experience.
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I enjoy capturing intimate moments & details within my photography. I like to treat each image as a unique moment in time, participating in a much larger story; it’s meaning made not only by the frame of the camera but by the viewer’s own stories & associations.
I am particularly excited by working in a series, where several images come together to tell a story about a time / place / thing. These are a few of my favourite shots from over the years.
Hire me to capture photo essays to celebrate something special to you (e.g. your land / home / project)!
Here is some of my latest digital collage art, created from found imagery, my photography, and imagery shot of me by my good friend & fellow photographer Monique Boyd Art.
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What feelings and sensations arise during the act of being witnessed fully by another, or in witnessing another being?
What energies, narratives and norms are present in each moment of witnessing that impact the affect and connection we feel towards one another?
What does the act of witnessing look and feel like when it’s based in consent, reciprocity, non judgement and openness?
How can we intentionally use witnessing as a tool of understanding and healing?
This ongoing project explores these questions as they apply to both my personal understanding of Self, boundaries, trust & vulnerability, and my critical exploration of ‘Self’ & ‘Other’ dynamics that influence how I show up in the world. I apply to this exploration my evolving understanding of the legacy of colonisation, capitalism, spiritual ecology, animism, and ancestral connection.
This project assumes the perspective that all beings are actors in the co-creation of meaning, and that each moment of witnessing is situated within wider social and historical roots. This project requires of me a sensory, embodied presence whereby tensions or patterns in the body/mind may be revealed and greeted with compassion & curiosity, softening a bit, and then a bit more, and a bit more…as my nervous system tolerance expands around dynamics of witnessing
By asking questions that don’t normally occur in small talk, presented in a unique format, this series invites you to learn about others based on content/words rather than relying on appearance as a primary informant. Click Here.
This series reflects on the areas of tension, restriction and confinement, (twists, hunches, shrinking) in the body, as it consumes and adapts to external energy, spaces, technologies, etc. This exploration adopts the belief our body’s forms/shapes are responsive to both our internal landscape & external environment, and that in turn our body influences inner/outer energies.
We The YEAH is a memory project produced in collaboration with young adults aged 18-24 staying at a shelter. Through a combination of audio recordings and photographs taken by participants, this project offers a rich, dynamic and honest insight into some of their thoughts & experiences in this moment of their lives. Universal themes like defining home, strengths & challenges are explored, and are presented in an audio-visual web essay in order to promote accessibility of the material.
We The Yeah website ran for 4 years from 2019 - 2023. Click Here for a recording of the experience of scrolling through the website in order to view each page & listen to each narrative.
Now, Previously & Afterwards is a photo-essay created from Imperial War Museum archival WW1 photographs, accompanied by written prompts and commentary that aims to invite an embodied, affective engagement with photographs of atrocity as an alternative mode of narrative creation. Content warning: human remains. Click Here.
Image: Imperial War Museum, ‘Troops of the 2nd Australian Division in a front line trench at Croix du Bac, near Armentieres, May 1916. One of the them is reading a newspaper while the other is using a trench periscope.’ IWM Q579
