I’m Miles, a photographic artist, writer, and poet based in Liverpool. My work explores the fragility of images and the traces they hold, what remains visible and what has almost slipped away.
Using slow, hands-on processes such as pinhole photography and photogravure, a traditional printmaking technique, I create images that stretch a moment in time and exist as physical, singular objects. Each piece is shaped not only by light and exposure but also by time, touch, and the tactile qualities of its making.
Rather than treating the camera as a device for instant capture, I see it as a tool for excavation. My process begins with quiet observation and unfolds deliberately, revealing overlooked spaces, textures, and fleeting traces. The resulting images are unearthed rather than taken and considered rather than stolen, finding surprising connections between memory and the restless pace of the everyday.
My ongoing series, Recycle The Real, challenges the hyper-speed, endlessly replicable nature of digital imagery. Instead, it embraces the slow, imperfect, and irreproducible, inviting viewers to encounter each photograph as a unique artifact shaped by its own process of becoming.
Alongside my visual practice, I write poetry and short texts inspired by the same themes of memory, loss, materiality, and time, often informed by my life and work along the Sefton coast. My writing sits alongside my images, extending the work beyond the visual into language and narrative, creating a dialogue between word and image.