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16th Pollux Awards, Still Life Series, Second Place

16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Still Life Series, Honourable Mention

2020 International Photo Awards, Fine Art: Still Life Series, Honourable Mention

Featured in the book 'The World Within'. Photo works realised during the lockdown in Europe (March to June 2020), Hangar Photo Art Center, PhotoBrussels Festival 05

Photographing in a time of pandemic. Surrounded by uncertainty, I sought comfort from new rituals using ancient magic. In these rites of photographic evocation, I explore objects and materials attributed with the power to protect the body, the house, and the family, from invisible dangers.

I suspended a veil in front of the objects as a visual metaphor for the mysterious division which separates the esoteric realm beyond the actual. As the veil moves, shields, and interacts with the light, an ethereal impression of the objects is created. The real and the imagined become blurred, giving a benign sense of solace.

Circumnavigating Drake

19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Fine Art Series, Honourable Mention

Creative re-workings of a found lantern slide depicting the monument of Sir Francis Drake, ‘Circumnavigating the World’, located on Plymouth Hoe. Various photographic processes transform the original image to reflect our current relationship with history. Each process alters the depiction of the monument to visually deconstruct Drake as an explorer, Naval officer, privateer, sea captain, politician and slave trader. The images consider whose narratives the photograph and the monument preserves and whose they suppress.

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