Arcadia Shakes: sun glints, intentional camera moves and abstract urban landscapes from Auckland

Notions of European landscape superimpose the volcanic, shaken terrain of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in this series of black-and-white abstract landscapes from 2016-17.

Portrait format black-and-white abstract photograph with foggy landscape and weird crescents of light amongst a suggested landscape of dark forests and ruins.
Something epic landscape, incandescent bright
Portrait format ICM black and white photograph with abstract zigzagging streamers of light moving across an ambiguous and blurred landscape.
Dancing light, along a zigzag woven path
Portrait format photo with dark city block over empty plaza as ribbons of chaotic light fly past.
Streaming past, a darkening city block
Abstract black and white image featuring blurred, swirling lines of light against a dark background.
Dark clouds gather, lightning opens cracks
Lightly wandering a rural idyll, hill town glowing early mist
Landscape format photo with rushing stream of light suggests river rapids with wind shaking background forest trees.
Alight standing wave, river rapid wind shaking tree
A jaunty carriage trots, down long dark forest roads
Falling blocks, a shaking swarming swirling
Early days return, a nostalgic turn of events
Light crossing brightly, dark wood beyond
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