About Affinities
Affinities (2002-2024)
Relationships among images – adjacency, sequence, dialogues, echoes, variations, etc. – have always been of interest to me. I am intrigued by the complexity of groups of images and the challenge of working out how to construct those groups in ways that enable each image to interact with and enrich the others.
It is one thing, however, to put together a group of images that are obviously related through an external, overarching identity, as is the case in much of my work, e.g. “China” and “Memoria”, although even within such groups sequencing is still of utmost importance. It is another matter to construct a coherent whole from images that are quite different from one another, and that originated in disparate times and places and were made for various purposes, and this is the case for both “Affinities” and “Ephemera”. The link from one image to the next in such sequences is always likely to be more associative and implicit than logical and explicit. Although I did not make these pictures with any specific intent to put them together, I was pleased to create with them bodies of work that are more resonant and evocative than any of the single images within them.