Dornoch Pinholes

This series was made on Dornoch Beach, where wide sand, shifting dunes and changing light create a landscape that encourages slow movement and loose orientation. I photographed the beach using a DSLR fitted with a homemade pinhole lens, a method that removes sharp focus and certainty and replaces them with blur, drift and extended exposure times. Working this way slowed my walking and my looking, allowing wind, weather and duration to shape each image. Rather than describing the beach as a fixed location, the photographs approach it psychogeographically, as a space experienced through movement, attention and mood. The softened detail echoes memory rather than description, inviting the viewer to drift through the images as they might through the landscape itself, guided less by landmarks and more by atmosphere and sensation.