Physical Photography

These photographic portraits explore beauty, sexuality and our humanity. Many have a narrative and incorporate sexual imagery or religious symbolism. My particular style I achieve by dispensing with traditional methods, instead using a modified scanner as my camera. This technique creates very high-resolution images of hair, skin and clothing but with a sensitive and painterly style, taking photography in its literal sense of ‘painting with light’. From single shots to collages of many images that can take hours to shoot it is a very physical and emphatically collaborative process. The results have a unique, ethereal quality, reminiscent of old master paintings.