My approach emphasises collaboration and an empathetic working process. I draw on the works of Jung and Rogers to help inform these engagements.
Jungian concepts of Anima/Animus, Shadow, archetypes, and the individual and collective unconscious are all prevalent motifs in my work. I aspire to a Rogerian approach in my photographic process. Based on the techniques developed by Carl Rogers, this methodology advocates creating a true empathetic bond between myself as the photographer and my subject in order to better understand the perspective and experience of that individual. This can only be achieved through a truly collaborative process; it is a ‘done with’ not a ‘done to’ process.
I adopt an analogue process to my work flow. The patience this process requires forces me to slow down and be in the moment with my subjects, allowing that empathetic bond to develop. my work is almost always project based and executed over longer periods of time, months sometimes even years.
