‘To Vanish’ explores the collision between the extraction and construction of photographic narratives. As a series, it centres around a photograph I took whilst in Paris. I knew nothing of the gentleman photographed, and the only tangible trace from our interaction became the 6x9cm negative. 

Fascinated by his demeanour and curious of his past, I made a series of prints using experimental techniques to draw out–extract–as much narrative as I could. Yet by doing so, I inadvertently began constructing my own narrative at the same time. Simultaneously isolating whilst constructing; creating whilst destroying.

Thomas Oliver