Another person, for us, is a spirit which haunts a body and we seem to see a whole host of possibilities contained within this body when it appears before us; the body is the very presence of these possibilities.


In the Refraction series I photograph people using a self-constructed camera on which I have replaced the lens with a fresnel, or magnifying sheet. The resulting images are impressions of refracted light, with the highlights rendered as spectrum and the darker areas as undefined lines and shapes.

For my subjects I choose people who I desire but do not know; people I believe to have characteristics I want to possess. I am not interested in who they really are, but in who I perceive them to be. For me, this work is about an intense longing to experience a reality that is not your own.