You are always in my dreams
My images explore the idea of loss and the subconscious. Photography is the most common way for us to record our own and our loved ones lives, we arrange photographs in our rooms of our beloved, often because they cannot be with us. Photography is the medium in which we unconsciously encounter the dead. Photographs are evidence of absence; or rather the presence of a photograph indicates its subject’s absence. Photographs contain a realisation of loss. My images explore the idea that photographs show not the presence of the past but the pastness of the present. They show the irreversible passing of time.
‘I cannot reproduce the winter garden photograph – it exists only for me, for you it would mean nothing but an indifferent picture, one of the thousand manifestations of the ordinary. It cannot in any way constitute the visible object of a science. At most it would interest your stadium but in it for you – no wound.’
Roland Bartes, Light in the dark room |