Statement


I photograph Hong Kong, where I’ve lived and worked for a decade. I’m interested in what it means to maintain attention—to treat the act of seeing as a form of presence.

My practice investigates compression, interference, and mediation as conditions and side-effects of photography.  These formal strategies are also a way of staying connected to what’s distant. It’s here that the camera becomes an object of ritual, a tool for sustaining contact with that which cannot be reached.

Ultimately, what matters is whether looking changes anything, whether photographs can do more than document, whether they can think.

—Chris Sullivan