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Second Person 
2025 - ongoing photo series
Mote102, Leith
17-26 April 2026

This was the first showing of work made in an ongoing attempt to collaborate with my young daughter who turned two during the exhibition. The project will continue for as long as she is willing, adapting to allow for more agency and co-creation.

Second Person stages the issue of how a parent chooses to frame and document their child. It does so against a backdrop of children’s emergent relationships with the reproduction of their images online. 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.

The exhibition included a series of twelve 30"x20" giclée prints, several smaller prints and an installation of some of the large drawings and masks that feature in the photographs.

The exhibition included a collaboration with poet Helena Fornells Nadal whose series of poems written in resonse to the work was published in the exhibition booklet, available here.