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Second Person
2026 - ongoing
Photo series

This work is the product of my ongoing attempt to collaborate with my nearly two-year-old daughter. The project will continue for as long as she is willing, adapting to allow for more agency and co-creation.

Against a backdrop of children’s emergent relationships with the reproduction of their images online, the work stages the issue of how a parent chooses to frame and document their child. These intimate drawing-photo hybrids explore boundaries, storytelling and a tussle of wills.

The images are loosely based on scenes from family life. I make large drawings based on imagery from my own childhood photos and then photograph my daughter interacting with them. The resulting montages are in-person fabrications rather than digitally edited collages. They explore a mother-child-camera relationship and how the families we make are haunted by the ones we come from.

I will be showing the work so far at an exhibtion at Mote102 in Edinburgh, 17-26 April 2026. More info here.

The exhibition also features a collaboration with poet Helena Fornells Nadal, whose series of poems in resonse to the work will be published in the exhibition booklet, with a reading in the gallery on Thursday 23 April, 7-8pm.