Drift Project

“Hazard hasard”

Drift is a study of memory and the slow movement from the confusion of loss towards clarity. Each image combines two moments, exposed onto a single frame of film.

When I first arrived at the Kent coast, everything was unfocused—my thoughts, my sense of self, even the ground I stood on. That feeling is captured in this series by first photographing the sea and sky as they appeared then: blurred, shifting, unsettled.

“Into the White”

Later I return to the same locations, no longer at sea, with new clarity and feet on solid ground. But I carry the same body and the same film, still imprinted with those earlier, blurred memories. By working in film, I must learn to give up some control, and only later is the impact of memory revealed. (By chance, one roll of film amplified this idea, carrying its own distant memories, held within for a generation.)

“Through the Roses”

Each final piece holds these two feelings in one image: the disorientation of arrival and the clarity that grew over time.

The images drift between abstraction and precision, echoing how the coast helped me settle, find my sea legs, and gradually see more clearly.

“Obstruction”
“Decades”
“Oscillate”
“The Fog”
“Accumulates”
“Tear/Tear”
“Right to Sea”
“Beach Foam”
“Disappear”
“Undercliff”
“West Cliff Ramble”
“Graphic Beach”
“In the Water”
“Life”
“Lift”
“Mercy”
“Drift”