Image by: Paul Hoi

“I recently spent a couple of weeks car camping through South Island of New Zealand to create a new series of photographs. I wanted a diverse location that would provide both the challenge of frequently photographed places as well as the option of remote spaces, the latter of which I’m especially drawn to. For this series, I used a mirrorless camera converted for full-spectrum infrared. Using filters that limit particular light spectrums, the camera revealed spectrums of light invisible to the human eye. I wanted to use this technique to push an otherwise familiar landscape into the fringe of the imaginary…Like many others, I was introduced to infrared photography via Richard Mosse. The stark contrast of war journalism and the vibrant red and pink tones seemed to bring two unbridgeable worlds together – one of a brutal, war-torn reality and the other of an imagined, dream-like world. Taking this contrast of ideas onward, I wanted to create a contrast of an imagined world that borders on sci-fi with the formal tradition of landscape photography… I’ve always been less interested in documenting things as they are and more so in wanting to reveal something beyond the surface, to open up worlds of their own.” -Group Study

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