Visual Studies / 008

Body & Gesture

Melbourne and New York City

2022–2024

Intimate Intervention

Gestures of touch transforming shared environments into sites of intimacy.

Intimate Intervention catches people mid-adjustment: one person fixes another’s collar, tucks away hair, straightens a strap or brushes something from a shoulder. Care becomes visible at the scale of the body.

The street remains present, but attention closes around the gesture. Touch makes the relationship legible through permission rather than explanation. Who is allowed to approach a face, rearrange clothing or enter another person’s personal space?

The series argues that intimacy is not a location. It is a temporary field of trust formed through access and attention, capable of appearing anywhere while the surrounding world continues to watch.

  • Oral Fixation

    Oral Fixation

    A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.

  • Eye Contact

    Eye Contact

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

  • 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.

  • Earworm

    Earworm

    Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.

  • Walking Wounded

    Walking Wounded

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

  • A Lungful of Air

    A Lungful of Air

    How substances shape the atmosphere of the city and the psyche of its inhabitants