C-type prints, dimensions variable. (Selected images)
'Hello my name is Roy’ is the culmination of an eight year collaboration.
The resulting images could be viewed solely as a documentary-style portrait of a young boy
approaching manhood.
However, by photographing someone else repeatedly and intimately over many years, a sense of
mirroring begins to emerge reflecting something of one’s own adolescent self. In this sense these
photographs could also be considered self-portraits.
The mise en scene avoids the ‘significant’ events that might appear in a family album, or the
‘definitive’ moments of traditional reportage in favour of the listless off-scene periods
in between these moments. This focus on the marginal passages of disregarded time situates us at the
heart of adolescence, suspended between longing (for the deferred promise of adulthood) and regret
(for the loss of childhood).
