back in the time machine

October 1st 2023

My work this year from Mexico, and now London and Marseille, has represented a return to a prelapsarian time, before the pandemic. As a result it feels a little out of time.

I had been working my way through this style on my last project of that period, New Europe 2015-19. My idea there was to make myself, the image and the viewer work a little harder, to go beyond the pure composition of the photograph into looking at in a social and historical context. Reflecting on it now I can see a bridge to the approach I took in the pandemic, of exploring the semiotics of images to tell a story of political themes and personal feelings. 

My post-pandemic work does not have that angle, yet. It’s been something more elemental. Of proving to myself I still have the eye, and hand, to find something new, to surprise myself. There’s hope for next year. in the meantime the permacrisis will keep me busy.