Cameras organise visual experience, remaking three-dimensional space in two dimensions according to precise structural protocols. Most of the time, the perspectival rules imposed by the lens are not the subject of the image. For some photographers, however, the work done by the apparatus is the focus of their practice. Jan McCullough’s work explores the ways that the camera encounters and transforms built space, and the ways that real space interacts with its own photographic representation. Using sketchbooks, photographs and installation, McCullough charts a path from object to image and back again, revealing the creative potential embodied in our everyday encounters with lived space.

‘Jan McCullough: Tricks of the Trade’, in The Light Work Annual, 2021, p53.
Language: English