This is an ongoing project. New images will be added as the work continues to evolve and expand.

The Visible Unknown is an ongoing photographic project that explores what happens when perception loosens and the world begins to feel subtly displaced, as if lived experience has shifted closer to simulation than certainty. The work is shaped by my lived experience of keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition that alters brightness and form, and derealisation disorder, a mental health condition that can create a sense of distance between self and environment. These conditions do not define the images, but they quietly inform how I understand clarity, steadiness and the fragile thresholds between inner and outer life.

Rather than attempting to replicate how I see, the photographs move beyond literal vision into a more emotional and sensory territory. The images are made deliberately out of focus, using in camera methods that adapt focus and aperture to push clarity beyond recognition. This softness is not an aesthetic effect but a conceptual tool. By removing the anchor of detail, the work asks what kind of truth remains when sight becomes a felt experience rather than a descriptive one.

Across the wider project, the images move through a number of thematic states. These include belief and symbolism, everyday performance, emotional states, landscape and place, and mediation and simulation. Each photograph sits within more than one of these territories, allowing meaning to surface slowly through atmosphere rather than explanation.

A central aim of the project is to bring a lesser discussed mental health experience into view without spectacle or simplification. Derealisation is often difficult to articulate, both medically and emotionally. In The Visible Unknown, it is approached through mood, absence and perceptual distance, creating space for viewers to recognise their own moments of disconnection, vulnerability or quiet estrangement.

At its core, the project is about attention. About slowing down enough to notice how the familiar can begin to feel staged, how everyday life can take on the quality of a simulation, and how reality itself can feel quietly uncertain. The images do not seek to explain these states. Instead, the project offers a thoughtful visual narrative that invites conversation about how we experience reality, opening space for reflection on perception, mental health and the fragile ways we locate ourselves within the world.