The dates are finally fixed: two weeks over Easter, opening 30th March, with the Thirteen Collective of Independent Photographers. I’ve been working toward this quietly for weeks, but seeing it confirmed—London, a defined space, a public context—suddenly makes the Phenomena / Thirteen images feel less like files on a hard drive and more like a set of physical presences I’m responsible for.

There’s a particular tension in this work that I’m feeling sharply right now. On one side, the slow, private, almost domestic nature of the practice: more than a decade of living with light in a home space, watching it move across walls, objects, glass. On the other, the reality that in a few weeks, these same traces will be hanging in a room where strangers will walk in and encounter them in a matter of seconds. How they read the photographs is out of my hands.

Becoming part of the Thirteen Collective at this moment matters more than I expected. It places this work in dialogue – not just with “photography” in a broad sense, but with other artists who are also carrying long-term obsessions, questions, and ways of looking. There’s reassurance in that, but also a kind of productive pressure: I want the prints to stand up to that context, technically and conceptually.

Right now, the thinking is practical and abstract all at once: A3 editions, Epson Hot Press Bright, subtle monochrome, signed and numbered. I’m calibrating the blacks, checking that the quiet transitions between tones survive the move from screen to paper. But beneath that, there’s a more personal question forming as the show approaches: when you place work that originated in the intimacy of the home into a public, shared space, what exactly are you inviting people into?

Over the next few weeks, I want to use this journal to track that shift—from making the work, to preparing it for others, to actually letting it go for a while into a London room full of holiday crowds and unexpected attention. For now, it’s enough to say: the dates are set, the work is on its way, and the project that began as a private experiment in seeing is about to step into a much more social kind of light.