Untitled [HUMAN] is a photographic book developed over several months, evolving organically through an ongoing interest in the raw movement of the human body. Throughout the project, I became increasingly interested in challenging how familiar and normalised our perception of the body has become. Rather than presenting the figure in a recognisable or conventional form, I wanted to explore how far it could be pushed towards abstraction, using dance and physical movement to distort, fragment and transform the body into something less immediately familiar.

Heavily influenced by my own ongoing exploration of movement through photography, alongside the work of Liora Goldstein and her focus on the raw force and physical extremity of the moving body, the project developed quite naturally from my own relationship with movement. I wanted to move beyond simply capturing dance as a performance, instead exploring the energy, intensity and unpredictability of the moving body as a means of creating images in their own right. Working with my own body as the subject, the resulting photographs became a series of self-portraits that sit somewhere between documentation and abstraction, where movement becomes less about what the body is doing and more about the forms it produces.

The resulting series was brought together in a one-of-one, hand-bound concertina book. Each image was individually printed in the darkroom onto resin-coated photographic paper, making the production of the book an extension of the photographic process itself. The concertina format allows the images to unfold continuously, creating a relationship between individual frames while allowing the work to be experienced as one extended sequence.