It’s hard to summarize my work into a simple statement. I’m not interested in beauty for beauty’s sake, but rather I want my aesthetic to be shaped by and inform the ideas I’m working with.
So much photographic practice edits out subject matter in order to conform to a commercialized agenda so as to keep advertisers happy. Under this invisible censorship much is edited out of representation. Unconventional or flawed bodies and raw, human physicality are regarded as ugly and generally avoided. My aesthetic is a reaction against this. I’m interested in the beauty that exists in unexpected areas, subjects that at first glance are probably deemed ugly but on close inspection reveal a kind of hidden beauty. To me, ageing bodies or blue veins pulsing beneath translucent skin can be beautiful things. I hope my aesthetic reflects this to some degree.
Furthermore, I want to create an aesthetic that celebrates and revels in the digital origin of the imagery rather than persisting with the aesthetic of analogue photography even though digital tools have been used to achieve it, as many photographers seem to do today. Indeed, I emphasize the constructed aspect of my photography in order to disturb the ‘natural’ look of straight photography.