HOW IT HAPPENED

I thought I would reveal how my photographs are created as people are very curious and often ask. First step is location, location, location. I needed a wide-open space, which would also capture the surrounding environment. My mind was so distracted with finding an appropriate space that I did not realise that the space I chose was not only successful practically but also conceptually. It wasn’t until I returned to the space to re shoot that it all came together. The spaces were demolition sites, which meant I was replacing the absent spaces with presence. Lying on my stomach with a 50mm lens, I select the model while the sky and landscape is out of focus. The photography was a race against time to capture the fading soft afternoon light, which illuminated the imaginative spaces. Being an abandoned demolition site the spaces were over grown with aggressive weeds, bindi’s, broken glass, bugs and insects. By the end of the day my elbows were red raw, I had been the bull ants afternoon tea and I was covered in bindi’s which I still find in my clothes to this day.