The Persistence of Time

Photography is often described as the art of freezing a moment—an instant held still forever. But I’ve always been drawn to images that do the opposite: photographs that reveal the quiet flow of time rather than stopping it. Instead of capturing a single fraction of a second, I wanted to explore how time itself leaves its mark on the world around us. This collection brings together photographs from Essex, where I live, and Sardinia, where I’m from, alongside landscapes from London, Suffolk, and Norfolk. These places, shaped by the elements where land meets water and the sky is in constant flux, provide the perfect setting to capture time’s effect. By using longer exposure times, I aimed to show how time transforms the familiar: clouds stretch into soft streaks, water dissolves into mist, and shifting light reshapes the land from one moment to the next. The ordinary becomes ethereal, revealing patterns and movements that often go unnoticed. The process of making these images is as slow as the photographs themselves appear to be. Long exposures take time—not only in the moment of capture, but in the patience required to observe, compose, and wait for the right conditions. The light changes, the wind moves, the tide shifts. There’s no rushing it. This slowness becomes part of the final image, lingering in the softness of the water, the smooth drift of the clouds, and the stillness that comes from letting time flow rather than freezing it.