For 20 years I have lived with chronic vestibular migraines. My brain over interprets different sensory inputs; lights are too bright, sounds too loud and movement makes me nauseous. Plus, there’s the pain of the headaches and the ever-present brain fog making thinking clearly difficult. There’s no off button, so it’s how I experience the world now.
Essentially, I have faulty wiring within my neuropathic pathways, signals sent via my nerves break down along the way, giving my brain incorrect information to work with. And yet, this experience has gifted me ability to slow down, to find beauty in the quiet moments and to appreciate the complexity of the human brain and how it carefully constructs our reality.
This project is my attempt to communicate a little of that lived experience.
I am a London-based experimental photographer working with analogue processes. Through my work I’m looking to find a balance between chance and control, and between; construction and destruction, signal and noise, and ultimately, life and death. I embrace the accidents and errors as they not only remind us how vulnerable and delicate we are, they can often show us something new.
— Mark Tamer
