Yosemite, 2025–  

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These images were made using a bellows camera containing a modified digital scanner in place of a photographic plate.

Born digital, the works are materialised as glossy sublimation prints on reflective aluminium grounds. Depending on the light in which they are viewed their appearance can vary greatly; the image is both fixed and elusive, emulating qualities of early photographic processes such as the daguerreotype.

The images chronicle the changing conditions during which they were formed: the waxing and waning of the day at sunrise and sunset; the passage of clouds across the sun; the rise and fall of the wind. The slow accumulation of the image on the camera’s ground-glass back recalls longer histories embedded within the land—the record of sunlight written into the trees over centuries and the trace of time inscribed into the rock by wind and water and glaciers over millions of years.