King Island, Tasmania, Australia

King Island sits in the Bass Strait, where the westerly winds circle the globe uninterrupted. It is a working landscape, defined by what can be taken from it: tungsten from the ground, energy from the wind and sun, kelp from the sea. Made during a residency on the island, this project works across those sites of extraction using large format film, digital capture, moving image and camera-less processes. Tungsten, mined from the island's interior for much of the twentieth century, is the same metal that lit the photographic darkroom and, drawn into the interconnects of silicon chips, it now runs through every digital sensor. The connection between mining, light and photography runs through the whole body of work. The photographs ask what a camera can honestly know of a place so thoroughly organised by systems of use.