My practice explores the blurred lines between evidence and fiction in the forms of the photograph, the moving image and their contexts. My work debates our ability, and our willingness, to decode the veracity of the mediated image, where signifiers of fact and fiction are interchangeable, where narratives are airbrushed, histories re-written and invented. By adopting the role of ‘Researcher’, my work to date is framed as an investigation into the life and work of the fictive film director Martin MacAnally. In each body of work, aspects of the director’s great, unfinished (and unseen) films are revealed through ‘cultural fragments’ (photographs, film posters, objects, film clips) re- contextualized by way of photographic series, institutional presentation or documentary film. This methodology enables the mythology surrounding MacAnally and his work to be made manifest as an ever-expanding archive, whilst the parallel ‘investigation’ analyses the presentation and consumption of these images and artefacts, and their interdependence with the imagined, the digitally retouched and the contemporary viewers’ desire for a ‘good story’.