Light Play

Light Play (2017-present) is a series of abstract photographs, collages and etchings exploring the ethereal and transitory nature of light. A highly experimental, studio-based project involving a large, wooden, pinhole camera, Light Play captures magnifications of light and shadow as they coalesce and disperse during their brief transit through constructions made from glass. Though Light Play draws attention to a simple, fleeting and normally unseen occurrence, it is not merely a record, or tracing, of the light’s passage, but an act of photographic mark-making resulting from the artist’s observation and manipulation of light to create new shapes and patterns within the glass. The series invites the viewer to contemplate polarities such as absence and presence, concealment and revelation, permanence and evanescence.

Works from Light Play have been shown at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and the Royal Academy of Art London and published in Fresh Eyes, an anthology of emerging photographers selected by GUP magazine.