Abstract Prints of Light, Waves and Shoreline
Sometimes I can see a picture in my head before I know how to make it. Liquid Light began that way. Read more below…
At Balmoral Beach, a shoreline I knew well, I suspended the camera by its strap just above the small waves and let movement become part of the exposure. The camera moved. The water moved. Light moved across sandstone and seagrass. Nothing remained completely still.
The photographs that resulted were not quite the pictures I had imagined. Over the following years I kept returning to the files, sometimes making small changes and sometimes beginning again.
There is no point of sharpness in these photographs. Water, rock and reflected dawn light have become bands, curves and fragments of colour.
They are still photographs, but only just: records of movement, chance and what the camera found when I stopped asking it to hold the world still.rolled only.