GALLERY / FACES AND PLACES

This project is part of my ongoing exploration of ways to use photography as part of a fine art practice, to subvert the visual conventions of our hegemonic society. Faces and Places involves the collaboration of regional BBC News Presenters. I use large and very primitive homemade wooden cameras, to produce one-off abstract documents of these individuals. These ‘Life Mask Portrait’s provide a metaphor of how there is always more to the individuals that we deduce as part of our cognitive understandings of the world. Additionally, I work to make typological observations of the spaces that these famous individuals pass through in their daily experiences. By looking deeper at the nostalgic of others and the nuances that we trivialize, I hope to illuminate the issue of human passivity towards the existence of consciousness and experience in urban life.