

Invisible dances
Long exposures aren't only interesting for expressing a particular bodily and subcionscious state, as I did with 'becoming one' (see previous post). Leaving your shutter open for an extended length of time, compressing seconds or minutes into one image, can draw attention to the passing or transience of time, connect us to lost pasts, or layer different temporalities on top of each other. With Elisabeth Schilling's project "Invisible Dances", I captured imprints of the past.


becoming one: photography, improvisation and creative eruptions
Where does music come from when you improvise? Asking about the 'where' of things excites me from a phenomenological perspective: the...


seeing with camera eyes
'To collect photography is to collect the world', Susan Sontag writes in On Photography . With a beautiful resonance, this initially...


phd /2: microaggressions, affect and trauma
overexposed at the pipe factory, glasgow, june 2023 Have you ever felt that you needed to hide a part of yourself? Did someone ever look...


phd /1: letting art think
over/exposed, june 2023, leith arches edinburgh Making art within an academic inquiry is a thrilling endeavour. Firstly, because the...
