A Walk Through Texture

 Photographing Broadway Market with Joe Wild

I took a walk down Broadway Market with my art assistant, Joe Wild. The idea was simple: to explore the street, to feel it, and to find a way to frame it in a way that speaks to the depth of consequence that place holds for me. 

My limited mobility frustrates the handling of a heavy 35mm camera. I couldn't lift the viewfinder to my eye, and struggled to press the button at that angle. I’ve often had to rethink how I approach image-making and try to embrace what new restrictions offer the process, sometimes affecting a rough-edged quality or a skewed viewpoint. 

With Joe’s support, we developed a process that allowed me to direct, frame, focus and shape the photos—even if I couldn’t always press the shutter myself. It became a delicate collaboration, an odd dance of holding, winding and clicking where intuition led. I wanted the viewer to see the street from a place of confusion, pulling out texture and colour without definition, blurred focus zooming into tiny details, evoking a sense of motion, softness and tension. 

Broadway Market is full of contrast. Crumbling walls beside slick new facades. Graffiti etched like memories into brick. Textures layered over decades. I wasn’t just looking to capture the aesthetic qualities of the space —I wanted to capture the feeling of falling through it. Each building holds its own colour story, its own temperature, its own quiet histories.

I’m proud of how these images hold a quiet sense of movement, and excited to carry that feeling forward—transforming what we saw into light, texture, and story.