My photographic practice begins with curiosity: an instinctive response to ordinary places, structures and objects, and to something within them that suggests the possibility of another reading. I am drawn particularly to architecture, infrastructure and peripheral spaces — places that seem to sit somewhere between the familiar and the uncanny.

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I approach subjects almost as portraits, using composition, light, colour and negative space to isolate and heighten particular qualities. Sometimes the context remains visible; at other times it is reduced, obscured or removed altogether. This process of amplification through subtraction allows an ordinary place or object to take on a different psychological or spatial presence.

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The finished photograph develops through both the original encounter and post-production. Reality is the source material; manipulation is a way of articulating my reading of it. I use digital intervention freely and to varying degrees — altering colour, light, space or detail, and reordering the hierarchy of information within the frame. Sometimes this involves subtle refinement; at other times the image is more substantially reconstructed.

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The photograph may begin with a real place, but I allow it to move beyond straightforward description. I am interested in amplifying something already latent within the scene: a sense of stillness, theatricality, unease, humour or isolation. The resulting images occupy a space between observation and construction, where familiar subjects can become strange, cinematic or unexpectedly significant.

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I have a First Class degree in Photography and Digital Imaging and have exhibited in solo and group exhibitions.