Laughter

Laughter (2008) is a new body of work examining facial expression. These images present the viewer with an ambiguity, which in turn opens up a dialogue and asks questions of photographic ‘truth’. In this series we see references drawn extensively from scientific photography. Each subject sits placed between profiling mirrors and is photographed whilst engaged in laughter. The image is made at a point when the subjects are unable to present themselves to the camera as they would for a traditional photographic portrait. Resulting in the documentation of the human form as we rarely see it.