Miranda Driscoll
I am interested in using photography and memory to explore the uncanny. I like to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction and look for a world that is not instantly obvious to the eye. The film can often capture at night what the eye cannot. To photograph at night is to throw away all preconceptions of how photography operates. In this sense the night photographer can still retain the element of surprise, it's often only after the image has been made do I really learn anything about it.
The simple beam of light or the illumination from the moon makes us look, it is questioning, searching, probing. The reason we illuminate something is to see it better or to search for something. The presence of the figure in the landscape is evident here, and the person is searching, trying to uncover a sense of place and a sense of being. The area outside the light reveals little, and the light gives an intriguing beauty to its chosen subject – drawing our attention to an otherwise everyday place or subject.
Miranda Driscoll
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