Hidden in Plain Sight (2012)

As a 12 yr old I first realised that photography was about more than recording events. I found myself drawn repeatedly to my father’s prized Time-Life photography book collection and in particular to images where the familiar, normal or seemingly everyday were transformed into something compelling, extraordinary, evocative or lovely.  Back then I imagined that the camera could ‘see’ in a way that I normally did not. Many years later, I realise how the photographer’s craft utilises or controls light, form, texture, composition, point of view, cropping, and processing  to create images which will evoke curiosity and emotional response from the viewer.

The photographer ‘sees’, not the camera. This work consists of images of objects that comprise my ‘everyday’, my ‘familiar’, and I have attempted to use what photography craft I have to create images which might, were he ever to view them, engage again the curiosity and wonder in my 12 year-old self.