January 2026 – Creative Eye Magazine
I’m delighted to share that my work is featured in RPS Creative Eye Magazine 99, the January 2026 edition, in a feature titled The Poetics of Decay: Exploring the Corrodium and Collage Series.
Creative Eye is the Royal Photographic Society’s magazine for contemporary photography, and it’s a real honour to be included among artists whose work pushes at the boundaries of the medium. This feature offers a deeper look into two bodies of work that sit at the heart of my practice: Corrodium and my ongoing Collage / Original Works series.
Corrodium, which began in 2017, marked a turning point for me. Wanting to move beyond the certainty of the digital print, I began printing photographs onto aluminium, copper, glass and other materials, then chemically corroding their surfaces. The process introduced an element of unpredictability that I had to learn to embrace allowing the materials to react in their own way, creating textures, erosion and absences that couldn’t be planned. That tension between control and surrender became central to the work, culminating in Archaeologies at CHARLIE SMITH LONDON in 2019, where the series was first exhibited.
Alongside this, the feature also looks at my Collage / Original Works, which approach abandoned spaces from a different direction. Where Corrodium is about erosion, these works are about reconstruction – cutting and combining photographs with fragments gathered on site, such as old wallpaper, dust and paper. Together, the two series reflect different ways of engaging with memory, material and time, blurring the line between photograph and object.
Being featured in Creative Eye feels particularly meaningful because of the space it gives to process, experimentation and reflection. You can read the full feature in RPS Creative Eye Magazine 99, available now in print and through the Royal Photographic Society.
The Poetics of Decay – January 2026 – Page 1
The Poetics of Decay – January 2026 – Page 2
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