Melting - 2024
This work approaches photography as a form of visual meditation and a method of editing time.
An ice cube is first photographed on instant film at a moment of apparent completeness, becoming a small monument to preservation. Using the same large-format camera and lens, I then return to the subject with a digital back. Its smaller frame records only partial views, while repeated exposures trace the ice as it melts.
The tension between the singular completeness of the instant photograph and the repeated partial views of the digital sequence shapes the project. Through layering and reassembly, separate moments are reorganised within a single image. Extending from objects to landscapes, the work asks how photography can witness change and hold memory without claiming to stop time.
An ice cube is first photographed on instant film at a moment of apparent completeness, becoming a small monument to preservation. Using the same large-format camera and lens, I then return to the subject with a digital back. Its smaller frame records only partial views, while repeated exposures trace the ice as it melts.
The tension between the singular completeness of the instant photograph and the repeated partial views of the digital sequence shapes the project. Through layering and reassembly, separate moments are reorganised within a single image. Extending from objects to landscapes, the work asks how photography can witness change and hold memory without claiming to stop time.