Nocturne

Staged black-and-white photographs: one woman, one impossible situation. A body floats in a water-filled piano; a figure stands on a traffic light. Built like film scenes - tenderness and danger in one frame. I call it conflict in the frame.

Nocturne is a series of staged black-and-white photographs, each built around one woman and one impossible situation. A body floats inside a water-filled piano. A figure stands calmly on a traffic light above an empty street. A woman lies across an overturned car as if it were a bed.

I work the way a director works, not a reporter: every frame is constructed, lit and performed. What I look for is the moment where two things that should not belong together share the same image - tenderness and danger, stillness and catastrophe. I call it conflict in the frame. The black-and-white strips away decoration and leaves only the tension.

The scenes are nocturnal in feeling rather than in time - quiet, suspended, slightly dangerous, the way a dream is dangerous. I want the viewer to stay one second too long, and to not be sure whether the woman is in trouble or in control.