With the most recent series of photographs, I have set myself a challenge: to shoot in one limiting location, using only available light, forcing me to push the compositions to generate movement, tension and energy in an industrial and unsympathetic environment. I am interested in contrasts: the cold metal interior of a shipping container versus the warmth of a body, the curves of the model against the hard parallel lines of the walls, a delicate female model and the strength and tension in her poses. These juxtapositions create movement and polarity in the photographs. By working with the grain of the photographs, I am exploring the contradiction of how the images are seen. From afar, the images are seen with a high degree of definition. When moving in closer, the photographs lose their details and reveal the process. The clarity with the images occurs from a distance whereas up close the viewer becomes intimately immersed in their elemental nature.
