ABSTRACT

In Transition aimed to challenge dualistic thinking and to visually render, by capture and by construction, more complex and hybrid environmental forms and ambiguous spaces. Consistent in the process was a fascination with the ways that photography can present mesmeric details of phenomena encountered in the matter of the everyday. Using an Actor Network Theory (ANT) approach has led me to question the ability of any single photograph to make sense of the real complexity of the term landscape and the myriad interactions and relations that occur within it. ANT began as a sociological theory developed by Bruno Latour, Michel Callon and John Law, but is now more widely considered within other disciplines, including the arts and landscape studies. ANT configures all things of any scale human or non-human, conscious or non-conscious as actors that interact and comprise a study network. All actors in the dynamic and heterogeneous network have equal weighting and create interconnections and associations.