Paul Rideout’s photographic practice is rooted in repetition, quiet observation, and a sensitivity to the emotional tone of place. Often returning to the same spaces over time, he works with subtle constraints to explore atmosphere, absence, and the unnoticed.

Working with constraint and slowness, he observes how time settles into surfaces — how absence leaves a trace, how stillness holds meaning. His work navigates the edges of documentary and poetic expression, drawing attention to slow change, impermanence, and the quiet gestures that shape our sense of memory and space.