Stills of Imagined Films
(2008 - 2014)
"Imagine each picture as a piece from a set of disconnected events”
This series began as a way to further my cinematic style of photography in a very specific direction. I wanted to create a different type of photographic narrative, a form of storytelling that I had never done before. My intention was to create a series of stills that appeared to be from a film, but not an existing one—an imagined film.
On the Stairs, 2011
Everything Merges within the Night, 2012
Waiting for Her to Appear, 2014
Voices from Another Room, 2011
Returning to Maryon Park, 2007
Searching for Nighttown, 2010
The Lights of Ninsei, 2012
In Plain View but out of Sight, 2011
Myth of the Rainy Night, 2008
Echoes of Days Gone By, 2011
About this series
This series began as a way to further my cinematic style of photography in a very specific direction. I wanted to create a different type of photographic narrative, a form of storytelling that I had never done before. My intention was to create a series of stills that appeared to be from a film, but not an existing one—an imagined film.
By using stills to tell a story it exposed a void that doesn’t exist in the linear storytelling of a film. By using stills only, the creative process is more reliant upon a single image to explain or hide information. Without the luxury of sound or motion I wanted to present the complexities of a character in a different way than I had ever done before. I wanted to express what was going on beyond the visual image. I felt it necessary to include text in some way to enhance the narrative. I found that simple scene descriptions as if from a screenplay weren’t enough. I wanted to place the viewer inside the head of each character.
The final version presented here is the culmination of the series that began in 2008 and was finished in 2014.