DESCRIPTION
Adhering to the rules of candid street photography, I often 'build' shots by waiting for satisfactory outcomes in real time. Extensively, I’ve used photographic layering to make a comment about aspects of human behavior in cities. It’s a particular technique I’ve chosen, to make a body of work which, I feel, gives visual expression to the human condition now.
In these photographs, the built environment, static and inanimate, is the stage in which a walking choreography is played out. The humans, who bring the animate, are spatially arranged as though carefully directed. They appear to have been preconditioned to act like automatons or self-absorbed passers-by uncannily acting out parts in mental isolation.
I’m looking for rhythm in moving figures separated visually within plastic space. It’s the spaces between the human inhabitants that are equally likely to control the narrative. Even though I’m working in a real environment, shooting it in this way can give it an unreal look. Perhaps the influence of digital technology on the City is already illustrating the boundary between the real and the virtual world, like Goddard’s Alphaville which, through deft use of real locations, transformed a real city into a science-fictional one.
AUTHOR
Born Dundee, Scotland
2016 Finalist, LensCulture Street Photography Awards
2017 Series Winner, PHoS Athens
Finalist, Miami Street Photography Festival
2018 Finalist, Italian Street Photography Festival, Rome
2019 Winner, Best Series, Streetfoto’19, San Francisco
Series winner, Street Photography category (non-pro), 13th Pollux Awards
Series Finalist, Aussie Street 2019 International Street Photography Competition, Sydney
Category winner, Neutral Density Awards (Street photography)
2020 Series Finalist, Bangkok Street Photography Festival
Gold award, San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards
Featured in “The Square Mile” iN-PUBLiC Online Exhibition
Jurors’ Pick, 2019/2020 Chelsea International Photography Competition, New York
Honourable mention, “Dis/harmony” Group Exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
First prize, “Street Photography” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York
Shortlist, 212 Photography Competition, Istanbul
2021 Photographic Visions – Winter 2021, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
“The Poetry of the Ordinary”, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
“Taking Pictures: 2021”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Composed”, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
“Motion”, Group Exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
Honourable Mention, “The Streets”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
International Photo Competition, Viewpoint Gallery, Bedford, Nova Scotia
Honourable mention, Vienna International Photo Award (VIEpa)
Passepartout Photo Prize, Plazza di Pietra Gallery, Rome
“Minimalism”, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Budapest International Foto Awards, 1st place winner, People category
