Metanoia — from the Greek, a fundamental change of heart and mind. A photographic series conceived, shot, and sequenced as a single body of work. Not the before. Not the after. The during. The argument: transformation is rarely loud. It happens in stillness, in material, in the quiet moments the camera usually misses.
Every series needs an anchor — the image the rest of the work has to live up to. This was ours. A figure half-buried in sand, eyes closed, a collar of seaweed at the throat. Not a portrait. Not a self-portrait. A state.
Every photograph earns its place through its relationship to the others. The sequencing was as considered as the shooting — the order you encounter the images in is the argument the work makes.
No retouching past colour balance. The grain, the soft focus, the unframed subjects — the photographs had to look the way the body of work feels.
Polish would have been a lie. Transformation is messy; the work is allowed to be too.
Natural abstraction — granite, feather, water, skin. Transformation read through material rather than the body.
A digital gallery would have been smaller than the work deserved. The series culminates in an art book — a physical object built to hold the emotional weight of the photographs and the time they ask for.
Paper weight, sequencing, margins, typography — every decision treated as part of the visual language. The book is slow on purpose. You can't scroll it.
The cover reflects the concept: transformation doesn't declare itself. It arrives quietly.
Elysium Gallery Studios
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Swansea, SA1 1PE
Booking Q3 2026