It’s not you it’s me, 2018 
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I wish I could trade the time spent learning my way around a darkroom for playing the bass guitar. Then, my photographs could be deafening words riding a trail of rage shattering music in a blaze of fearless gall. 

I fall in love every time a woman steps onto a stage. They sing their songs - our songs, my songs all the same - and I wish I was on stage with them. But I’m not. And so we fall into a certain kind of dance. I have something they want, and they are everything I want. I take their picture and they hold their pose a bit stronger, they sing in my direction, they stare a while longer waiting for my flash. I wonder if they can tell it’s not them I’m trying to photograph, but myself. 

‘It’s not you it’s me’ is a collection of photographs taken during musical performances, still lifes, and partially or completely abstracted analogue collages. A visual discussion on representation and idols, on my connection to music and those who share it with us. Together, it aims to explore emotional intimacy within a public image or performance and capture the blurred line between adoration and total idealization. It reaches for the feeling of finding yourself in music, and the way in which a singer can look out into a crowd and make everyone in it feel as though they are singing directly to them.

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