A portrait of the sinister and unknown. The slickness of surface and contorted forms hint at the underlying contagion or threat. Before we can contain our anxiety we must attach dimension to it? Craning our necks in the dark we strain to recognise the origin of a sound or an outline in the shadows. We seem to need to put a face to the danger. We have a powerful impulse to discern the hidden predator. I think humans need to visually contextualise things to just begin to cope with it. If something remains unknowable or hidden it is much more alarming.
Initial photography was done in the studio with strobes and LED backlighting. They were shot with the Fujifilm gfx100s with the Sigma 100mm f2.8 macro and the Fujinon 45mm-100mm f4. They were then heavily manipulated in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop to arrive at the kind of abstraction I was looking for.
