“One’s relationship to one’s own shadow -which is not the same as oneself, which one does not own, but which is an inescapable attribute and accompaniment, was for me a memorable conundrum. A midpoint between between a familiar self and the otherness of the rest of the world. It is both of one and separate from one’. William Kentridge, In Praise of Shadows, 2009 p20.
I love looking at how photography reveals presence by capturing absences, through negatives, shadows, shutters and the sub conscious.Most of my work takes place within Shadow Dial Studies. A research based practice that uses shadow catching as a photographic method to measure time and map place. I regularly use shadow casting as a way to explore ideas yet never autobiographical aspects of myself or others. I’d decided to begin doing this in a collaboration with my Dad.
Joan Alexander 