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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Youths in Balaclava on a rooftop at dusk.

Youths
in Balaclava

Singapore / Paris · 2017–2020

Kai in blue glasses with DEMON written across their chest.

A figure on a rooftop among pipes and walls.

Michael seated in the studio.

Kash in a patched black hoodie.

Izz with yellow flowers.

Close portrait in a white cap.

Yi Chen on a train.

Taufiq with blue hair, sunglasses and a face mask.

A person in a green shirt and glasses on a rooftop, revealing lettering on their chest.

The collective gathered beside a red gate, a bicycle and stacked pallets.

A person in a yellow jacket beneath an elevated concrete railway.

The group gathered together indoors.

The group working in the studio.

Two people together at a club.

A figure seen from behind beneath an elevated railway.

Two people by the studio window, one standing and one reclining beside a flower.

Studio drawings, photographs and Honey Memory posters taped to a wall.

Hands adjusting black clothing and fastenings.

A close view of necklaces and chains.

A close view of rings, belt and chains.

A circle of shoes and pointing hands.

A skateboarder in motion beside a sunlit wall.

Youths in Balaclava gathered together outdoors at night.

A seated portrait with another figure behind.

Kash searching through fabric in a shop.

Rooftops and a stairwell seen from above.

The group together in a lift.

Black-and-white portrait of a person holding a towel.

A person working with material at a table beside a sewing machine.

Black-and-white image of makeup being applied.

Black-and-white image of a person resting on a bed.

A resting person beside another passenger reading on a train.

Black-and-white photograph from Paris.

Black-and-white photograph from Paris.

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