Borrowed Light is a series of abstract photographic compositions that can also be read, in varying degrees, as representational images. They were created entirely in-camera, without staging, cropping or retouching. Some make use of movement; others are a hundred percent documentary. All are presented as taken, in colour, on a hand-held, entry-level, digital camera with a standard 18-55mm lens.

The patterns and effects featured in the compositions were all ‘found’ in-situ in my flat over the course of 2015. They were generated by light ‘borrowed’ from street lamps, adjacent rooms and electric appliances, as well as by natural daylight. No additional lighting was used.

The compositions are generally reproduced as high-quality, framed, digital pigment prints on a heavy, uncoated art paper, at sizes up to one metre in length. This gives them a strong physical presence, that plays an important part in the way they’re seen as finished objects.