At the moment, and as part of my master’s degree in photography, I’m working on a project around places and memories. How memories are perceived, preserved, and fabricated.

The Dudes suite is part of an ongoing photographic inquiry of theories around subjectivity, intra-action, socio-materiality, and dissolution of dichotomies such as nature/culture, knower/known, other/self, natural/artificial, and straight/queer.

You know how a memory can be strongly connected to a photograph? To the point that you’re not sure if you’re remembering the actual event or merely the photograph. This brings up themes of subjectivity, materiality, and non-human agents.

Video transcript; Now - the topic for today. If you’ve seen my videos from before, you know that I’ve been working from a small office/studio space in my home. Since about half a year, my creative work takes place in the attic space of a 1930s school building. This is the story of how I made that into a functional and aesthetically pleasing studio environment.