This series alludes to the duality inherent in the process of film making – the elusive, emotional nature of acting and the nuances of bringing a character to life, amidst the often strenuous technical work with lights, rigging, and cameras. Every day people turn up on location and proceed to create something that isn't real, something that is based on imagination and invention. The juxtaposition of these two ‘worlds’ and the hazy border of their meeting point became the basis for the work.

It is the actors in particular who have a foot in each of these worlds. I photograph them when their faces are obscured, when it seemes they are half here and half

somewhere else, one foot rooted in the reality of lights, cameras and action, and the other existing in a space of interior exploration and stillness.

The fact that some of the actors are celebrities with recognisable faces explores the question of fame versus privacy. The nature of the job requires many actors to endeavor to become recognisable yet there is often, and perhaps understandably in our celebrity-obsessed culture, an accompanying sense of shielding, of privacy and self-protection.

Perhaps these patterns of stillness, paradoxically caught on the run amidst hectic film sets, which depict the ideas of duality and observation are also relevant to the individual existing within a busy society and a confusing world. How does our inner life co-exist with the outer reality? How do we as individuals fit in to the functioning of our community? How much of ourselves do we actually reveal?