Near and Elsewhere

The photograph can act like an entrance; it opens the doors and helps us to revisit past memories from another place and another time. An entrance into worlds captured and stilled by photography’s gaze. These envelopes of time can begin to move and be bought to life outside of the frame by the viewer’s own thoughts and personal stories. Pictures can articulate and translate what words sometimes fail to; they can be experienced in an almost primitive way that can play with our subconscious and trigger the forgotten.
Near and Elsewhere shows a landscape of memories mapped through a fictitious world. Fragments of a story spill out, in a disjointed rhythm; with no clear path of cause and effect we are left with uncertainty and asked to experience them intuitively. We see glimpses of a narrative and images act as co-ordinates to a boundless whole, left open to possibilities.