PUNCTUM COLLECTIVE

Issie Treacher

︎ @issie_tr

︎ https://issietreacherphotography.com/

︎ treacher.melissa@gmail.com

Throughout this body of work, I am exploring how I externally project myself within an urban landscape through the medium of photography, as well as sound. My photographs are influenced by Descartes’ understanding of the self and are taken through a psychogeographical approach, exposing the consciousness of my wandering mind and depicting the urban landscape from a flaneur’s perspective. Within this series, I attempt to detach myself from the physical vessel that is my body and allow my mind to roam freely, documenting any space or object that presents itself in a meditative, healing manner. The spaces documented also act as external manifestations of my ‘self’ because my subconscious felt such an innate connection with them, as though we were the same entity compelled by each other but separated by our mediums. This allows for an untraditional approach to autobiographical photography.

The video format and use of sound allows the audience to experience the city through a short series of derives with a pace and atmosphere that has been pre-determined through my interactions with the spaces, forcing the audience to encounter the city through my sense of ‘self’.

Issie Treacher

︎ @issie_tr

︎ https://issietreacherphotography.com/

︎ treacher.melissa@gmail.com

My photographic practice predicates landscape photography in an untraditional manner through the incorporation of autobiographical themes. Exploring the ‘self’ and the complications that arise when one is caught in a state of liminality are themes that are frequently explored throughout my imagery; I delicately touch upon such notions and investigate them through the act of photography within the urban topography. Through the exploration of urban sites, particularly natural breaks within the terrain, I investigate the uncertainty and ambiguity of my ‘self’ and its familiarity to particular spaces within the city, using the camera as a tool to externally document the conflict within. Through such a process, the urban landscape is transformed into a site of representation; it becomes an untraditional self-portrait that is rich with indexical traces and notions of trauma and memory, playfully teetering on the boundaries of conventional autobiography and how one’s ‘self’ can be documented.