What Keeps Me on this Earth explores the process of impulsive image making with use of slow shutter and movement to create abstract black and white photographs to investigate a sense of place, the role of memory, and an unsettled relationship with reality.

By shooting on repeated journeys on foot and by train through towns and cities using a simple 35mm camera I am able to shoot freely with instinct. Endlessly fascinated with how light falls on a surface, I explore contrast, textures and tones with oblique and abstract form to give glimpses into an experienced reality to evoke intangible remains of memory.

This project aims to discuss how a photographs structural elements allow it to be read, concerned with how an experience retained without clarity is held both as memory and in the printed image. A moment experienced, translated to memory and back into an image that can be experienced one again and linked to memories of the viewer.

This project manifests as a series of 16x12 inch silver gelatin prints that I hand printed in the darkroom. [2022]