asini con le ali

Interview

acton

rust

rust, mould, fungus? on b/w cine transparency

I could not say

Magazine Article

mercury

cloud

'i saw a dead cloud today'

wish

portrait

seven again

in camera : in secret

details

womb

boy wonder

lost

deer

sisters

girls dublin

son:the end

In Turkish, 'son' means 'end'.

acid summer

static

black and white

courage

It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.
The first spanking when your heart
went on a journey all alone.
When they called you crybaby
or poor or fatty or crazy
and made you into an alien,
you drank their acid
and concealed it.
from 'Courage'
Anne Sexton

wing damage

the commonplace

"The man is very far from being an artist" wrote Thomas Mann, "who does not know longing for the innocent, the simple ... for a little friendship, devotion, familiar human happiness -- the gnawing. surreptitious hankering for the bliss of the commonplace"

non-digital

As a point of principle, I never use photoshop or shoot anything digitally. Scanning images, though, is a necessary evil and occasionally happy accidents occur. The redder image is the original. The blue (more popular one) is the mistake.

sunday

Taken in Dublin, this image seemed appropriate for Sunday.

suture

The term 'Camera Suture' came to me by accident, a mis-hearing of 'Kama Sutra'. I didn't know that, in film theory, 'suture' is an appropriation from psychoanalysis and actually refers to the use of cinematic technique which generates positions in the audience. It’s effectively that 'gap' in the text of the film in which the subject/audience/player places him/herself: a you-shaped hole in the text which you stitch yourself in. An unexpected coincidence that a phrase picked at random actually refers precisely to the focus of my work.

words

random words photographed

miss america

Some days, I really miss America.

book covers

thanks to those rare art directors who trusted me with their book covers.

found images

some random images salvaged from gutters and trashcans ...

bicycle series

Taken in MA years ago. Rediscovered.

jake sound

cast

memory

girl three