Amazing what a camera can do when you hand it to your daughter, give her some coloured glasses and see what she comes up with for her Art project.
There’s something compelling about shooting through glass — the way reflections, refractions and the actual subject all compete for the same plane of focus. These images came from a period of deliberate experimentation: using coloured glass, prisms, glass objects, and reflective surfaces to bend and fragment light in ways that push photographs away from straightforward documentation and into something more abstract.
The approach was deliberately low-tech: no studio lighting, just available light or a single source, and glass objects either sourced from charity shops or found at home. The unpredictability is part of the appeal — small movements of the glass produce completely different results, and the best frames usually came from moments that couldn’t be planned or repeated exactly.
The results sit somewhere between photography and painting — the colours are real, the physics is real, but the images don’t quite describe anything recognisable. That’s the point. Photography doesn’t have to be documentary. Sometimes it’s useful to just play with light and see what comes back.