Betwixt & Between
“Liminality can perhaps be described as a fructile chaos. A fertile nothingness, a storehouse of possibilities, not by any means a random assemblage but a striving after new forms and structure, a gestation process, a fetation of modes appropriate to anticipating post-liminal existence”. Victor Turner
Betwixt & Between is a body of work that explores a period of personal transition and my experience of waiting to become a parent.
Having recently moved to the coast while my wife was pregnant, I found myself drawn to images that appear to exist between two worlds, mirroring the emotional tides of my own in-between state. This sense of being neither here nor there, yet always in anticipation of something still to come, resurfaced memories of a recurring childhood nightmare: a dark, hairy figure glimpsed in the distance on the beaches of Suffolk, reminiscent of one of M. R. James’ ghost stories.
In recent years, this otherworldly figure from my past has become increasingly present. During walks along moonlit beaches and windswept cliff tops, I have felt it there, watching, half-seen, lingering at the edge of perception.
These experiences have prompted me to reflect on how images from our past can resurface during moments of uncertainty, and to question whether unconscious sensation can be made visible, imagined, sensed, or ultimately photographed. Exploring the unfamiliar terrain of my coastal surroundings with a camera has allowed me to seek out images that appear to hover on the brink of something undefined. Uncertain saltwater forms, alien marine life, and eerie nocturnal shoreline shadows emerge in the photographs unaltered, estranged, and quietly unsettling.
Like the rhythm of waves against the shore, past and future can feel simultaneously distant and close. Boundaries between the real and the unreal blur. In these moments, we find ourselves slipping between states, betwixt and between.
ING Discerning eye 2025
London Group Open 2025
Visual Art Open Finalist 2025
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
Winner of British Journal of Photography Edition 365 2021