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Winters Portrait

Aberdeen 2019 -20

I have always been intrigued with the textures and abstract shapes rain and condensation creates on glass surfaces. Often finding myself stopping to photograph this on cafe’s buses and shops during the winter months. In 2019, I began creating a series of images which focused on the rainswept bus windows in Aberdeen.

These images also featured people, often appearing deep in thought and isolated whose identities where usually obscured by the harsh weather. These people ultimately became the main focus of the project, with the textures, colours and shapes across the windows becoming a visual representation of there emotions. This became a large body of works which would be fittingly be titled ‘Winters Portrait’.

True Romance

Aberdeen & Scotland 2021-24

When walking around cites today, you will often see many new and long term couples holding hands, and expression of there devotion an close bond to one another.

Intrigued by this, I began creating a series which wold be a study in anthropology. Focusing not specifically on the identities of the people but on the shapes there hands would make, the colours and styles of there clothing and body posture. The series would be named ‘True Romance’ referring to the 1993 pop culture film of the same title, exploring the idea of idealistic love many of us experience in our youths.

Union Bridge

Aberdeen 2018-19

In summer 2018 a section of Union Bridge’s barrier height had been extended by the local authority with temporary fencing due to several incidents in the area. Not long after, activists began placing colourful signs, messages and names on the wall, helping to discourage and raise awareness to the topic of suicide. I observed that many people would stop and interact with the signs or even place there own, and over time the wall became more colourful, more intricate.

Over the course of the summer, I took a photographs of this unfolding when on my daily commute, creating a time lapse sequence of images. I felt that this temporary structure should not be forgotten. It’s fleeting existence, a physical metaphor for individuals who had lost there lives there.