Warm-toned courtyard and balcony.

St Helena — marsh

Toad ornament beside succulent.

An empty road and suspended traffic lights at dusk, Mexico City, 2024.

A wet street and worn buildings at night, Mexico City, 2024.

Pool table in pub.

Man looking over ferry railing.

Desert through car windscreen.

A field of dry grasses beside a sunlit treeline.

Embrace in red-lit crowd.

A close view of a pair of open hands.

Black-and-white photograph: a person standing beneath a tree at night.

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Ryan O'Toole Collett

My work moves between negotiated encounter and human trace.

I make photographs of people through conversation and introductions, and quieter photographs of rooms, roads, objects, landscapes and things left behind. Photography offers a temporary orientation within confusion: a way of moving towards the world while remaining conscious of the distance the camera creates.

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A yellow taxi in front of a concrete wall and watchtower.

Area A

Palestine · 2018–2019

A taxi driver standing in the street.

The landscape seen through an open car window.

Rooftops and buildings extending across a hillside.

An Area A road sign beside a rocky hillside.

A donkey tethered beside a road and utility poles.

An adult and child standing together beside olive trees.

A palm tree amid rubble on a hillside.

Wrecked cars in a scrapyard beneath a cloudy sky.

A yellow taxi on a hill at dusk.

A driver resting an arm on the open window of a yellow taxi.

A man standing with folded arms beside a car.

People working in a light-filled workshop.

A seated man beside workshop machinery.

A close view of a pair of open hands.

Two people at work among curved metal pieces.

A woman seated against a blue wall.

A portrait of a woman wearing a light headscarf against a blue wall.

Tables and chairs beneath a brightly painted mural.

A shop interior with stacked goods and part of a figure.

People and traffic on a busy street.

A person standing inside a walled courtyard, with trees above.

Pink flowering branches beside a concrete wall beneath a blue sky.

The moon above illuminated buildings at night.

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