Artist Statement: ‘The Space Between Photographers’

At Tate Britain, I watched how people moved through the gallery, pausing and drifting between Lee Miller’s photographs. Each reaction was different, a quiet reflection of how we each choose to connect with her work.

But this project was never about the viewers themselves. It is about the space that exists between photographers: between Lee’s fearless honesty and my own quiet act of observation, between the legacy she left behind and the way it continues to move those who stand before it.

I wanted to capture that movement and response in a single frame. Using long-exposure handheld photography allowed the passing figures to blur gently into motion, while Lee’s images remained still, connecting the past with the present in a moment that feels distant yet closer than we realise.

These photographs are not of her work, but in conversation with it, a reflection on how her courage and conviction continue to shape the way we look, think, and respond to the world around us.