Supported by Creative Victoria, Australia, this series of black and white photographs explores light and atmosphere in the volcanic landscapes of far northern Iceland, specifically Ólafsfjörður and Mývatn. Fog moves across the landscape, heat rises from volcanic surfaces, and changing light continually shifts what can be seen and how a place is experienced. The photographs consider these shifting conditions and their relationship to mood, memory and a sense of place, and to photography’s ability to hold something that is otherwise passing.

I am interested in the ambiguity of place and the slippage between being in place and out of place. As foregrounds and backgrounds move in and out of focus, so too can ideas of identity, belonging and certainty. These shifting conditions offer a way of thinking about queerness — not as a fixed position, but as something that can move between places, identities and ways of seeing.