Axis of Ixus
 

In 2004, shortly before relocating to Paris, I began photographing with an original Canon Digital IXUS compact camera.

Freed from the weight and deliberation of larger analogue systems, the camera introduced a more immediate and instinctive way of working. Small enough to carry constantly and discreet enough to remain largely unnoticed, it became a tool for recording fragments of everyday life, movement, friendship, nightlife, travel, and transition.

Produced during a period of personal and geographic displacement, the images reflect both the optimism and instability of that moment — a world experienced through the emerging visual language of early digital photography.

The work retains the visual imperfections of the technology itself: compressed files, blown highlights, colour shifts, motion blur, and low-resolution detail. Rather than diminish the images, these limitations now form part of their atmosphere and historical texture.
 

Axis of Ixus functions as both personal diary and visual record of an era suspended between analogue memory and the arrival of the digital image world that would soon dominate everyday life.