‘Places I Have Never Been’ presents camera-less images that evoke landscapes existing somewhere between the visible and the imagined. Created entirely with light through analogue photographic processes, the works suggest places that feel strangely familiar, yet cannot be located or reached.

The series explores the experience of recognising something without knowing what it is, or where that recognition comes from. These imagined landscapes are not depictions of existing places, yet they can evoke memory, longing and a sense of having been somewhere before.

As the series develops through different photographic processes, material becomes part of the construction of space. The warm, earthy tones of Van Dyke Brown and the deep blues of cyanotype each create a distinct spatial language. Within the blue works, the construction of space becomes increasingly open. Familiar spatial cues are sometimes reduced or disrupted, allowing foreground and background, distance and scale to become less certain.

Each work remains open: a space formed through light, material, time and chance, and ultimately completed through the perception and imagination of the viewer.