Over the past year, I have been using tennis balls as a device in my work to challenge the way that depth and perception can appear within the photographic frame. My work aims to encourage new ways of looking and interacting with photography by creating playful visual illusions in otherwise familiar spaces. I have been exploring this through the creation of temporary installations and through the performative repetitive action of throwing the ball. The unpredictable elements of chaos and chance are central to my practice and bring to light how a photograph can be transformed through a simple intervention.

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Where would you like your work to take you?

I would love for my work to lead me to a career in the photography industry, There are many different areas that interest me from automotive photography to retouching. On top of this, I want to continue with my own personal projects either continuing on with the themes in this project or other stuff like documentary/landscape that I have done in the past. I look forward to experimenting with my work outside the time constraints of university deadlines.

Which part of your creative process do you enjoy most?

I would say the favourite part of my creative process, atleast with this project, is post production. I have recently gotten more interested in the retouching process of my photographs, when I have a vision in mind for how I want the finished photograph to look I can't wait to play around with it on photoshop and see it all come together.

Where do you draw inspiration from?

In this project I took inspiration from many different artists, most notably however was John Baldessari with his project 'Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)' his work gave me a lot of insight into photography and how it can be pushed past the conventional. He is the reason my work has become more playful and chaotic as this project has developed over the last year.

What piece of music would you say compliments your work the most?

Sorry, I don’t have an answer for that. Did try and have a think but music isn’t something that really links to my work

Can you list a couple other creatives/friends/people you look to for inspiration?

All of my friends at my University (Arts University Bournemouth) and those in our collective (@opuscollective_) have inspired me in so many different ways and helped to push my work to its fullest. To name a few - @iordanridout, @eirytyriephoto, @mylesbailey