Inner Worlds - Outer Journeys
For more than three decades I have lived and worked across Asia and Africa, exploring the quiet relationship between people, place and the environments we create for ourselves.
The work presented here is drawn from four series.
Terminal
The Station
Slot City
Commute
Together they examine movement, solitude, routine and the subtle emotional landscapes of contemporary life. They are less concerned with documenting events than with observing the spaces between them — the moments where ordinary experience becomes quietly reflective.
SELECTED WORKS
ALTERED STATES
A set of photographic series that read real environments as unstable conditions of perception, behaviour, and space.
The Station moves through spaces shaped by observation, and behavioural ambiguity.
Figures appear watchful, positioned, withheld, and occasionally implicated, yet their roles and intentions never fully declare themselves.
The act of looking itself becomes uncertain, placing the viewer inside a shifting field of attention, concealment, and implied surveillance.
Terminal moves through zones of drift and compression where perception is disrupted by light, structure and behaviour. The city appears not as narrative, but as condition.
It is a sequence of isolated states—distraction, fragmentation, suspension—where the human figure becomes briefly legible inside unstable space.
Meaning remains unresolved. Only residue is left.
Slot City moves through architectures of spectacle and excess, where desire is continuously shaped by systems of consumption and illusion.
Figures appear suspended inside reflective environments engineered to seduce, distract, and absorb attention. Psychological spaces where fantasy and detachment coexist.
The city operates as a continuous surface of stimulation — immersive, disorientating, and emotionally opaque.
Meaning remains elusive. Beneath the spectacle lies a persistent sense of emptiness, repetition, and banality.
Commute explores the psychological experience of moving through a space that is never fully trusted.
Set within the Cape Town commuter rail system, the work observes shared public space as a moving condition of uncertainty — shaped by vigilance, fatigue, behavioural tension, and existential unease.
Figures appear suspended within environments marked by repetition, exposure, suspicion, and the low-grade pressure of everyday survival.
Beneath the banality of the daily commute lies an atmosphere of dread, vulnerability, and psychological compression.
LIFE CHRONOLOGY
1963
Born. Bradford, England
1975 – 1985
Johannesburg South Africa
1985 – 1989
London
1990 – 1997
Hong Kong
1997 – 1999
Johannesburg South Africa
2000
New York
2001 – 2003
Cape Town South Africa
2004
Paris
2005
Cape Town
2006
Seoul
2007-2008
Cape Town
2008-2016
Saigon Vietnam
2017
Phuket
2018-2022
Penang Malaysia
2023
Taipei Taiwan/Philippines
2024-2025
Penang Malaysia
