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Astigmatic Variations -2025
Spectra 2025 - Contact Photography Festival
May 14 to May 25, 2025
918 Bathurst Street Centre for Culture, Arts Media and Education
Toronto, Ontario
Astigmatic Variations 2025 is an ongoing project in which I capture images using time exposures and in-camera movement. I then apply textured overlays to render artistic interpretations of states such as isolation, longing, memory and dissolution.
I try to capture the felt-sense and presence in what I photograph, while imagining the subject’s implied context, history and trajectory forward. I encourage photographic accidents and surprises which often add disruptive contrast and juxtaposition.
In this 2025 edition, I utilize metaphors to express dimensions of personal journey, crossroads and transformation.
