Constructed Spaces

My photographic practice began with an exploration of texture, rhythm, and patterns. Through this process, an aesthetic emerged involving movement throughout the image. Early on I developed an inclination for subjects such as pathways, tracks, and trails, which intrinsically create a route that the eye naturally follows. This opened doors to exciting ways of presenting an image, focusing on more complex but subtle rhythm and movement.

Constructed Spaces cultivates natural “pathways” for the eye, though they do not necessarily incorporate literal pathways to achieve this. These more subliminal but prevalent pathways are created by manipulating edge-contrast, and luminosity. Long exposure times are used to ensure that human subjects—often a central focus of an image—are not recorded, but rather manifest as hinted movement in these spaces.

I form deep, complex relationships with my environments or spaces that can be as deep and complex as interpersonal relationships. I visit with these places multiple times, often taking several visits before the first photograph is made. My strong propensity towards patterns and rhythm, dictates my relationships to these spaces.

Two metal chairs on grass before a low brick terrace, a sapling and bare trees on the bank above — Two Chairs New

Round concrete stepped platform and sloping block-paved bank under bare trees, cable-stayed bridge pylon in mist behind — Neckarpromenade Mannheim, Germany

Slender trees growing between two concrete overpass decks above brick paving strewn with fallen leaves — Luisenpark 1

View from under a vine-covered pergola across gravel to a domed corner apartment block and ornate street lamps — Water Tower

Underside of a curving concrete flyover meeting its single pier, second deck below, streaked cloud in dark sky — Overpass

Bare multi-stemmed tree on a wet paved square, bench at left, tower block and domed tower behind — Meßplatz

Metal slide running down a terraced stone and timber playground mound below bare trees and pale sky — Slide

Two mute swans on leaf-strewn grass beside a riverside path, pollarded trees and flooded meadow behind — Mannheim Swans

Weathered wooden bench and plank table under leaning trees on a woodland floor deep in fallen leaves — Mannheim 3

Tram rails curving beneath concrete flyovers at night, streetlamps flaring into stars above wet asphalt — Tram Tracks

Chemical works, storage tanks and a pylon across glassy water, concrete stumps reflected under pale overcast sky — BASF

Flooded lake shore with half-submerged shrubs, concrete slipway in the grass and a distant treeline — Rhine

Disused railway sidings converging through weeds toward workshops and a smoking chimney under flat winter sky — Untitled 3

Disused harbour gantry crane and cement silos mirrored in still dock water, rip-rap stones along the near bank — Crane

Twin concrete road bridges over a river at night, lamp reflections smeared down the smoothed water — Untitled 3

Building site behind mesh fencing at dusk, scaffolded concrete shells, tower crane and a bare plane tree — Construction at Night 2