you'd think them real (2008 – 2009) are about stories constructed from the imagined reciprocity between the photographs in each diptych. Each photograph acts as a guide for the narrative; a protagonist is provided, and a scene is set. I am constantly attracted by how light falls on backs. This attraction translates into hundreds of photographs taken of an equal number of backs in different countries, different countries, contexts and circumstances; and makes up the first half of these diptychs: each a knee-jerk response to what I find visually interesting – a hook into the narrative.
The other photograph is an invented scenario: what were these people doing? Was it that their haste had overtaken my pace; or were these people merely spectators too, drawn to scenery that had too given them pause? I imagine them; in an escape from what still chases; in a refusal to interact; or in a pursuit for something else other than the present. These scenarios, all plausible and therefore fantastic only by technicality, are where I give my whims tangibility and a backdrop for which new and multiple narratives can form between the photographs. Each narrative is inevitably unique and transient - a fiction informed by our individual understanding - , and completes the diptych by revealing what holds it together.