Visual Studies / 014

Body & Gesture

Melbourne and New York City

2022–2024

Earworm

Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.

Washington Square Park, New York City.

Earworm follows hands, mouths and faces gathering around the ear. A whisper, a touch or a small adjustment creates an intimate circuit in the middle of public space.

Upper West Side, New York City.

The ear is both receptive and exposed. It receives language without returning a gaze, allowing one person to enter another’s attention while the surrounding street remains visible. The photographs hold care, secrecy, persuasion and intrusion within gestures that can look nearly identical.

World Trade Center, New York City.

Across repeated encounters, the series asks how private communication becomes public theater. What is said remains unavailable. What the camera records is the relation itself: proximity, permission and the brief redistribution of attention between bodies.

Midtown, New York City.
Union Square, New York City.
Herald Square, New York City. 2022.
Kyoto, Japan.
  • Hair

    Hair

    Hair explored as a site where personal identity intersects with public space.

  • Nailshop

    Nailshop

    Fingernails as bodily edges where grooming, self-fashioning and social judgment meet.

  • The Subject at Hand

    The Subject at Hand

    A photographic study of hands that emerge from the background of street scenes and become the subject through repetition, attention and sequencing.

  • Eye Contact

    Eye Contact

    Exploring the balance of trust, power, and vulnerability in human eye interactions.

  • Walking Wounded

    Walking Wounded

    Frailty, resilience, and the complex emotions triggered by witnessing trauma in public spaces.

  • Phnom Penh: The Waterline
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    Phnom Penh: The Waterline

    Along the Tonle Sap below Phnom Penh’s riverfront promenade, swimmers, fishers and children occupy the rough threshold between city and water.