A portrait series derived from a website for women from a former industrial city in Russia where women seek husbands as an escape from their poverty and deprivation. These plaintive images, which could have originated in a catalogue for unfashionable clothes, are the face of a new realism in the global political and economic order. The tentacles of capital extend not only geographically into the former spaces of state socialism but now bring love and hope itself within their orbit.

A series of watercolour paintings exploring consumer iconography from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Nostalgie extends the rationale of Neo-Love by interpreting images sourced from fashion magazines produced in the former GDR.

This project uses an innovative large-format digital camera that combines twenty-first and nineteenth-century technologies by fusing a heavily modified flatbed scanner with a traditional bellows camera. Xenon-Eye employs technological bricolage and perspectival disorientation as a strategy for representing a new approach to photographic portraiture.