Working Thesis Title: Photography - Interior geology - 2024

Supervisors: Prof Denise Ferris, Assoc Prof Katrina Sluis

This practice led research project began as an inquiry into the phenomena of geology as a starting point for thinking and making work that reflects the animate forces of the geological in the context of traditional anthropocentric frames. These frames focus on representational strategies of photography and the excavation of my own historical practice. The scientific and in some cases the cultural premise of the inseparability and the instability that exists between the human life and the animated forces of non-living substances drives this research. The Anthropocene reminds us that there is no ‘out there’, but always ‘with’ and ‘in here.’ How can photographs assist the contemplation of estrangement and connection between human and non-human, life and nonlife?