My practice investigates the ways in which images are produced and subsequently presented, rooted in an exploration of non-human micro-worlds through macro photography. Field photography forms the foundation of my practice, from which I then consider how these encounters can be communicated and re-presented across various media and processes. I have begun to work with installation and moving image to present imagery spatially, resituating ecological subjects into new environments.

Questions regarding scale of presentation have developed into an interest in the layers of separation between a subject and its resulting image, particularly in how changes in surrounding contexts and the processes a photograph is subjected to can alter its eventual interpretation. By enlarging the scale of small ecological subjects, I aim to distort the viewer’s perception of their size and significance, confronting audiences with unfamiliar, often unconsidered perspectives of entomological life within an expanded micro-world. The repetition and degradation of imagery through these processes has become a recurrent concern in my practice, examining the significance of the constructed distances between the subject of a photograph and its ultimate interpretation by an audience.

This has led me to consider the shared agency in authorship between the artist, subject, apparatus and audience, viewing each as a collaborator in the creative process. I increasingly view my position as the artist as that of a mediator between these parties, directing the conditions of image production while also encouraging an outcome that is outside of my complete control.