The moment before it disappears.

I have photographed since my school days, through university, family life and a career as an electronic engineer. What began as documentation gradually became a way of looking more closely: for the brief, almost mystical instant in which an ordinary scene reveals something unexpected.

My work moves between people, places, abstraction and technical forms. Across them is the same impulse—to hold onto a moment that would otherwise disappear, and to translate it into an image that continues to provoke an emotional response.

I am mostly self taught but have done short courses with Marlene Neumann, Angela Buckland and Danie Bester.  I  jointly   exhibited at the Apple Store in Sandton. A permanent  installation of my technical photographs is displayed at the entrance to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Kingsway campus.

I have pioneered a technique whereby abstract photos are produced through electromagnetic interference. The camera is pointed at a blank canvas. Interference (by means of electrical signals) is actively injected into the camera sensor. This produces patterns on the blank “canvas”. By varying the intensity, format and frequency of the interfering signal, different abstract forms emerge. A photo is then taken. This is usually done with an affordable webcam, as actual interference often leads to the destruction of the camera. The abstract images that emerge appear to have a life of their own.