Times Square, New York City. 2023.
6th Avenue, Chelsea, New York City. 2024.
Melbourne CBD, Elizabeth and La Trobe. 2024.
Melbourne CBD, Swanston and Collins. 2024.
Briant Park, New York City. 2024.
Central Park, New York City. 2023.
Eye Contact gathers moments in which eyes are approached, covered, tended to or held within another person’s attention. The work begins with a sensitive organ, then follows the social relation that forms around it.
These encounters make vision physical. Hands near the eye can signal care, examination, control or risk. The person being touched may appear trusting, vulnerable or self-possessed, and the photographs resist deciding too quickly which.
By repeating ocular contact across unrelated scenes, the series treats seeing as relational rather than private. The eye can connect or defend, reveal or withhold. Each image asks who controls the encounter and what becomes visible when looking itself enters the frame.
