Fractured Routes  2024

Fractured Routes originates from an engagement with psychogeographic methodologies and the practice of the dérive, utilising alternative and experimental navigational strategies to interrogate the experience of moving through time, place, and space. The photographs position mobility as an embodied research method, foregrounding the contingencies, disruptions, and sensory intensities that arise when traversing a landscape and shifting environments encountered along the way.

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The resulting photographs, alongside their conceptual framework, seek to articulate conditions of transience and perceptual flux. The work renders visible the material and affective dimensions of movement: its weight, its physical negotiation, and the shifting registers of attention demanded by continual encounter. Rather than relying on conventional photographic procedures, the series departs from standard techniques, favouring experimental approaches shaped by improvisation, tacit knowledge, chance operations, and responsiveness to the emotional resonance of the passing terrain. Through this refusal of the habitual image-making apparatus, Fractured Routes positions photographic production as an adaptive, situationally informed practice.

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Collectively, the works form an interconnected sequence that embraces both harmony and disorientation, producing moments of spatial and perceptual dislocation. The series ultimately interrogates how movement through landscape conditions visual understanding, positing the photograph not as a singular record but as a temporal, embodied trace of arrival, departure, and the indeterminate states that lie between.

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Fractrured Routes is short listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2026.