Research Diary
A photography journal from an upbeat-pessimist — documenting beauty in overlooked places, tracing repetition, stillness, and slow collapse. Part research, part wandering, part attempt to make sense of the noise.
The best laid plans of mice and men…
Exploration into how mental health disorders can be visualised through photographic mediums and how platforms like social media can distort our own self view.
Using retouching techniques through photoshop to distort a self-portrait and using these images to layer upon each other in a conscious yet abstract way to produce an effect that can express the emotion of depression without words
Tales from the Loop: Discovering a Theory
In this reflective post, I explore the concept of hypernormalisation through my photographic project, The Loop. Inspired by Alexei Yurchak’s Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, I discuss how ritualized walking and image editing reveal shifting perceptions of urban decay, endurance, and social critique in a dystopian landscape.