Questions asked through a lens attract unexpected answers - one view for another perhaps. Often the
structure I am photographing, and they are nearly always structures, looks back at me because normally
it would not attract enough attention to be photographed. These structures are located on the edges
of communities and exist along the edges of collective memories. Through the camera I feel the space
between the subject and myself alternate - between distance to and silence from - both are physical
but silence encourages questions.

These days people rarely find their way into my compositions, they will talk to me whilst I am working
- a broken silence and a welcome collaboration - but within the image they remain absent.
Sometimes a stranger will make a detour in order to tell me a story - “this was an important building,”
they might say, “it belonged to the village behind you, here they fought with guns, many died”
- the message and the messenger become entwined with the work - I will take a photograph from which
we both can never escape.