Warm-toned courtyard and balcony.St Helena — marshToad 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.All photographs →

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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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Selected work

Projects

Hazy aerial view across Mexico City

A Caged Dog Barks the Fiercest

Mexico City, 2024

Moonlight over the marsh on St Helena Island

Visions of St Helena

St Helena Island / South Carolina, 2015

Youths in Balaclava on a rooftop at dusk

Youths in Balaclava

Singapore / Paris, 2017–2020

A yellow car beside a concrete wall and tower

Area A

Palestine, 2018–2019

A handwritten message displayed on a roadside billboard

Read a bit, it will be good for you x

London, 2021

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