Folded in Light

Photography differs from other art forms in a sense. As a medium, it relies widely on observation, recording and representation rather than expressive ‘non-representation’ and abstraction. To make an abstract photograph goes against the natural grain of photography’s guiding principles.

This series of images were made during a period of interest in the sculptural qualities of light and abstract shape. Light and shape are captured by chemicals on a two-dimensional surface, in a process which distils objects into forms. They are born from the desire to take quite ordinary objects and reduce them not to their function, but to their form and essence, thereby elevating them.