I spent much of my childhood backstage, growing up in dressing rooms and on the road amid a family of performers. The immersion in this world led to an appreciation of imagination and storytelling, the surreal, the weird and the wonderful, which in turn led me to study advertising and editorial photography at university. However, I prefer to keep my feet planted firmly behind the scenes and behind the lens.

As a photographer, I have always been drawn to portraiture and the notion of capturing some essence of the sitter in the moment. The person behind the image, the face behind the mask. My work aims to capture the fleeting ephemeral world of the backstage and explore the line between performer and character. My work centres around the idea of transformation within performance and the distortion of the boundaries between fact and fiction. To depict a sense of the performer stepping back from themselves and becoming the character.