Picturing Paradise

Picturing Paradise (2003-2005) was a photographic series looked at places where individuals have created notions ‘paradise’ for themselves – these bubbles of existence we create away from the reality of the everyday. It asked if there is a common denominator to what we call ‘ideal place’. Are there pictorial conventions and traditions, which shape our understanding of the paradisiacal? Are these attempts at perfection by definition doomed to failure? The work sought to establish parallels between the construction of images and idealised spaces.