Recent photographic work ‘The Riverbed’ concerns neo-nomadic international countercultural identity. The work explores how rejectionist beliefs and ideals are expressed and played out through impermanent makeshift dwellings, to question notions and paradoxes of freedom and dependence. This work became the focus of a PhD in photography and cultural geography, successfully completed at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2020.
This work was exhibited as a solo show at the Architectural Association Gallery, London, 2017, as a solo show at De Singel / VLAAMS institute, Antwerp, Belgium, 2018 and widely reviewed and featured in international media. I was also a main exhibitor with this work alongside Stephen Shore at the Dong-gang International Photography festival in South Korea in 2017.
My work exhibited for a year at the V&A museum, and is held in the permanent collections of the V&A, the Archive of Modern Conflict, the Architectural Association. 12 of my works are in the National Portrait Gallery.
My first monograph “The U.N. Building”, (Thames & Hudson/Norton USA), questions how perception of internal space changes over time through external forces. Despite the building remaining largely unaltered, and as such is a reflection on post war optimistic utopian ideologies, the political, physical and geographic landscape outside has changed dramatically, altering how the interior spaces of this organisation are perceived. This work was exhibited at Steiglitz19 in Antwerp.