Carnival, Painted

This series was created in-camera during the final hours of the Notting Hill Carnival, as I wove through the intoxicating sounds and smells attempting to capture it’s soul. Each image is created by an abuse of the camera’s HDR function, which requires stillness in order for it to cobble together three consecutive exposures correctly. Movements will result in ghosting and peculiarities, which have defined my practice over recent years. As a photographer, I intuitively expand, drag and smear colour, texture, shape and form across a scene on site. I allow for accident, experiment and happenstance to influence the outcome. I am looking to pull apart the constraints of the HDR and reveal it’s innards. To delve into what was and what will become. To create visual expressions of the world around me. Ultimately, to create a dynamic interplay between abstraction, figuration, the painterly and the photographic.