October 2026 | Photographs and moving image
In October 2026, I travelled through East Greenland and Iceland, first by ship and then overland.
The photographs and moving images from this journey have developed into five distinct bodies of work. Each follows a different line of enquiry, from the uncertain boundaries between sea and ice to questions of scale, visibility, movement and the experience of looking.
Although they share a geographical origin, these are independent investigations, each shaped by its own subject, methods and visual concerns.
Initial Conditions
Sea and ice
Photographs of water, wake and forming ice explore surfaces that resist easy identification. Liquid and solid, movement and stillness become difficult to distinguish. Rather than following a straightforward process of transformation, the series considers the uncertainty of states.
Through Glass /Transact
Two works from a journey across Iceland
A five-hour bus journey from Akureyri to Reykjavík provided the material for two different responses to the experience of travelling through a rapidly changing landscape.
Through Glass is a short film exploring the wonder of watching the landscape unfold, alongside the frustration of being unable to stop and look more closely. Weather, movement and the passing road shape an experience in which the landscape is continually encountered and lost.
Transact takes a different approach, compressing the journey into a single vertical photographic composition assembled from successive images. The changing landscape becomes a continuous record of passage, transforming a journey experienced through time into something that can be examined all at once.
Counterparts
Reykjavík’s contrasting architecture
Photographs of Reykjavík’s contrasting architecture, paired through similarities of form, colour and rhythm. Traditional houses and contemporary structures reveal unexpected visual connections, where windows, surfaces and geometric patterns echo one another across differences of scale and age.
Conditions of Visibility
Portholes
Seen through a ship’s porthole, the landscape is intermittently revealed and obscured. Spray, condensation and reflections interrupt the view, making the window itself part of the image. Nine photographs form a single composition in which seeing is never entirely secure.
Trees | Öskjuhlíð
Reykjavík
A small study of woodland near Reykjavík. Branches, trunks and overlapping forms create complex structures within an apparently ordinary setting. The photographs concentrate on relationships of line, density and space rather than the woodland as a recognisable location.
Rock / Snow
Scale and surface
Snow follows the contours of rock while simultaneously concealing its structure. Without familiar visual references, the difference between a small surface and an immense geological formation becomes uncertain. These photographs explore the instability of scale and the ways snow can both reveal and obscure a landscape.
