statement

The ongoing series ‘Location Shots’, seemingly depicts people taking photographs at locations of historical, cultural or scenic significance. From Westminster Abbey, London to Sky City, New Mexico, by showing an apparently benign pastime - tourists taking photographs - my aim is to reveal that the act of photography and the resulting image has implications in our understanding of the real.

Are these images really testament to the fact the photographer (of the image itself and/or the photographer depicted) was really 'there'? Not only are these 'silent witnesses' actions of visual recording questioned, but the significance of the locations in which we see them. Are the scenes we/they are looking at, as truthful as they appear?

The constant slippage of interpretation as to the nature and purpose of these images, reveals not only the unstable ground on which the veracity of the photograph is positioned but also questions the purpose of the act of photography itself.