Untitled portraits

For me this series is fundamentally about my own interpersonal connections. My aim is not to try to document anything or to try to give a platform to anyone. These photographs are a result of myself making time to meet and to spend time with someone I know. Someone close, or sometimes someone more new or perhaps peripheral in my life – the photography is just a reason to connect. Sometimes I meet with someone I don’t know that well, and sometimes I meet to re-connect with someone close I haven’t seen in a long time. We talk a lot about a great many things, and often about the photographic process itself. I find the processes around justifying artwork odd and alienating, and that written space that often accompanies a photographic work has never felt like mine to fill, so each work has something written by the person being photographed.