At the Edge of Seeing
These images were shot on Bondi Beach on a late Spring afternoon/evening as a response to being 'walked into' by beachgoers, too glued to their phones to notice me.
Series Notes
"Arm's Length" explores the paradox of digital connection: the same device that links us to distant others disconnects us from immediate surroundings. Shot at exactly 20cm—the distance a phone screen sits from our face—these images capture what pedestrians absorbed in their devices literally cannot see clearly.
The camera's fixed focal length transforms encountered landscapes into fields of pure colour and light. Horizons dissolve, city lights become abstract constellations, and natural beauty blurs into impressionistic washes. What emerges is not documentation but sensation—the ephemeral moments of presence we sacrifice to digital distraction.
This work questions our mediated existence: How do we experience place when constantly looking elsewhere? These atmospheric photographs hover between the real and remembered, offering a poetic critique of contemporary disconnection while paradoxically using the very technology that creates this distance.