'Calibrations' (2019 – 2023) is a series of point clouds as gestures of my photomediated attention to the Maribyrnong River. The work responds to a sense of becoming within place and photography.
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The PhD research explores the entanglements of practitioner, place, and technology in expanded landscape photography. Through a creative practice-based approach, I examine how photo-imaging tools mediate attention and how creative interventions lead to new ways of discovering and performing place. The research generates a methodology that renegotiates a relationship between practitioner, place, and technology by treating them as co-constituting correspondences while exploring new vectors of practice and critique in photography.
While a mutual unfolding of place and practice is established in mediation theory, it remains largely unchallenged in a creative landscape practice context. By disrupting my photography practice and incorporating photogrammetry, this research extends mediation theory by offering alternative creative methodologies. Through experimentation and examination of the phenomenology of making point clouds, I develop a conversational approach to the technology and, ultimately, a novel practice of performing and becoming alongside the river.
