All Photographs are memento mori.....*
My photographic practice revolves around themes of memory, time and place. I work with a mixture of analogue and digital processes, using my family archive, found photographs, vintage postcards and text as a source for ideas. These physical objects are combined with my own photographs to make collages creating a composite reality, a fusion of now and then, instigating a dialogue between the past and the present. My digital collage work featuring old postcards addresses a range of contemporary local, national and global issues. I prefer to work on a small scale, creating images which are both intimate and personal, often displayed in book form.
Currently I am also experimenting with traditional historical processes such as salt prints, cyanotypes, anthotypes and platinum palladium printing in the fields of portraiture, landscape and botanical studies.
I am a member of Shutterhub and London Independent Photography as well as being a contributing editor of their photography magazine fLIP. I now live and photograph in the far west of Cornwall and have recently been elected a member of Newlyn Society of Artists.
*Susan Sontag On Photography