No One Sleeps

No One Sleeps is an ongoing experiment with my own photographs — a collection of images made after dark, taken out of their original context and allowed to become something else.

The work exists in two forms: the original photograph and its manipulated counterpart. The relationship between the two is deliberately loose. Sometimes the alteration is subtle, sometimes it completely changes the image. There isn't necessarily a fixed meaning behind each transformation; they are simply different possibilities of the same photograph.

I’m interested in creativity as a constant multiplication of ideas — one image leading to another thought, another image, another sound, another possibility. Rather than trying to arrive at a finished conclusion, “No One Sleeps” is a work in progress, documenting that process of making, altering and reimagining.

At the end of the exhibition, the images give way to a four-minute soundscape. With only a minimal visual accompanying it, the sound becomes its own space — less an explanation of the photographs and more another interpretation of the same world.

The visual is a piece of found footage: a colour slide of an unknown detail, taken somewhere between the 1960s and 2000s. Its original context, location and photographer are unknown. I chose it simply for what it seemed to suggest, allowing another fragment from another time to enter the work.

In that sense, the soundscape becomes another possibility rather than a conclusion — another image, another sound, another thought.