Visual Studies / 015

Myth, Symbol & Persona

Melbourne, Sydney, New York City and Kyoto

2022–2025

The Lover

Love, desire, romance, and vulnerability flowing through the city.

The Lover follows moments of closeness, desire, trust and vulnerability as they surface in public. Bodies lean together, hands seek contact and attention narrows around another person while the city continues around them.

The archetype is not limited to romance. It appears wherever attachment heightens the world and makes a person available to beauty, risk or loss. The same openness that creates connection can also unsettle boundaries or expose dependence.

The photographs do not identify the relationships they show or decide whether each gesture will endure. They stay with the visible charge of attraction and devotion, asking how private feeling becomes legible through bodies in shared space.

  • Believe Me

    Believe Me

    A photographic study of certainty as public performance, where faith, fraud and persuasion compete for another person’s attention.

  • Act Your Age

    Act Your Age

    When age stops looking the way we expect, the photograph catches us deciding what the difference means.

  • The Father

    The Father

    A photographic study of how fatherhood becomes visible in public through carrying, protection, resemblance, discipline and control.

  • The Notebook

    The Notebook

    The Notebook observes people writing in public and the private interior held by the page, where memory, unfinished thought and absence meet.

  • Hauntology

    Hauntology

    Hauntology explores unrealized futures, capturing how crumbling utopias and suppressed possibilities manifest in human presence and eroded environments.

  • Psychic City

    Psychic City

    The eye as a conduit between perception and the city.