ABOUT

Concept: With the idea of life and time standing still allowing us to tap into nature and the detail. Traveling to a mini world of landscapes and unpredictable patterns through the macro of frozen wild flowers with their secret messages and meaning.

With research, the flowers that reached out have floragraphic and historical significance. Some have healing properties or recall a significant memory. A representation of experience, like ghosts from the past, close to home. As time stood still, nature continued her phases of seeding, blossoming fruiting and feeding. The cycles of life are eternity and we are but one single element of this interconnected intelligence. They call out our names to tell us secrets we should know…. We cannot take it, we are part of it.

Execution: A personal series I made in 2020, when the world paused and I left London for the place I grew up. Early mornings became a ritual: gathering wildflowers, some with dew still on the petals, some with seed heads half shattered by the wind, then freezing them in ice. White campion, poppy and grasses are among them. Photographing a flower inside ice is a technical problem before it is a poetic one. I focus by hand through condensation, manage light against the distortion of frozen matter, and wait for the point in the melt where the form shifts and a new picture appears. The macro lens finds what the eye skips: trapped air bubbles, fractured crystals, colour softening at the edge of a petal.

Results: Each flower became a portrait, not of a person but of a moment. It was a slower way of working, and it changed how I look at everything else I photograph.