Portfolio > Photography

Facade, Marvila, Lisboa
digital photograph
2025
Mannequins, Porto
digital photograph
2024
Weeds Against The Wall, Veiros
digital photograph
2024
Cocktails, The Berkshires
digital photograph
20 x 16 inches
2024
Facade, Furadouro
digital photograph
variable
2024
Beekeepers, Aveiro
digital photograph
variable
2024
Window Altar, Aveiro
digital photograph
variable
2024
View From My Reading Spot, Veiros
digital photograph
variable
2023
Outside Bellworks, November 2022
digital photograph
variable
2022
Working From Home
digital photograph
variable
2021
Effusion
digital photograph
variable
2022
Escape Plan
digital photograph
variable
2021
Full Time Filth
digital photograph
variable
2021
Beach Detritus
digital photograph
variable
2021
Alternative Nature, Meadowlands
digital photograph
variable
2020
Arco do Evaristo, November 2019
digital photograph
variable
2019
Social Firewalls
digital photograph
variable
2019
Sao Bento, Porto (Blue Valentine)
digital photograph
variable
2018
Bail Bonds, Las Vegas
digital photograph
variable
2018
Will Skating, Veiros
digital photograph
variable
2018
Through the Window at LACMA
digital photograph
variable
2019
Questions Unanswered
digital photograph
variable
2019
At Night
digital photograph
variable
2018
Ingenious Devices
digital photograph
variable
2015
Wrong Place, Right Time
digital photograph
variable
2014
From a series that questions humanity's existence.
digital photograph
variable
2016
Evidence No. 2
digital photograph
variable
2016
Evidence No. 1
digital photograph
variable
2016
Doll In The Woods 1, Portugal
digital photograph
variable
2005
Doll In The Woods 2, Portugal
digital photograph
2005

Man Ray famously said, “I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.” Man Ray was an early artistic influence for me; similarly, photography has entranced me since childhood and continues to be a unique and useful way to express myself and document the world before me. Primarily a collagist, a practice rooted in photography, I tend to keep these two sides of my practice separate: I have rarely used my own photographs in my collages, and have infrequently photographed my collages and manipulated them further. I suppose I am a bit of a purist on both accounts.

Thematically, the works submitted here are a mixed bag; compositionally, the connective tissue to my collage work is a dedication to the grid. When photographing facades, for example, I am often seeking a reduction of depth of field and diagonals, with a concentration on verticals and horizontals. In one example here, however, I’m interested in the extension of space. Several photographs capture the juxtaposition of the natural and manmade worlds; in the Sao Bento train station in Porto, I captured a fleeting moment that suggests a connection between two figures.

It’s difficult to imagine photography not being an integral part of my broader artistic practice. I often say that I take photographs, but I am not a photographer. I present them physically with a slightly different size ratio, print them using a process not traditionally used for photography, and include no borders. Having great reverence for those that call themselves photographers, what I do find in photography is an instrument of composition and expression: taking advice from Man Ray, it allows me to capture the world as I want to remember it, driving images towards an aesthetic and meaning.