“Lifeblood”

This work forms part of my polaroid archives (shot at Yosemite, United States of America). It was exhibited as a monolith print originally 1300 x 1090 mm in the "Estrange" exhibition in 2023. Engaged with the nostalgic tradition of photographing one of the most iconic places for landscape photographers, this collection aimed to transform an experience of the unknown, the unfamiliar, and the 'other' for viewers, interrogating the experience of viewing as an outsider of place. "Estrange” encapsulates the moment or phenomenon when the familiar becomes unfamiliar; when the moment of recognition of the ‘normal’ or the known becomes disrupted, a moment of fundamental shift.