"Where the book is really born was in the quiet, uncanny connections between images that captured "the ruin and feeling of uncertainty" growing up in the "third world" they grew up in, which they found to be genetically made up of abandoned places, fragile objects, industrial leftovers, traces of ecological collapse and moments where nature and human structures collided. In Uncertainties, the collision of imagery creates a menacing tone throughout:"
"The duo were drawn to subjects that feel fragile, overlooked or unresolved, inspired by the "vertiginous nature of realising that they lived in the margins of the wider world". The photographs have a textural interplay that is fascinating - in one diptych, a television shows fuzzy static and next to it, an image shows an almost cosmic, glittering downpour of rain."
Paired photographs connect abandoned places, fragile objects, industrial leftovers, ecological traces, and collisions between nature and human structures to evoke ruin and uncertainty. Juxtapositions create a menacing tone: delicate crystals beside smashed windshields, dilapidated sinks beside inverted images of rifles. The work centers on fragile, overlooked, and unresolved subjects drawn from marginal regions undergoing rapid political, ecological, and economic transformation. Textural interplay and diptychs recontextualize ordinary phenomena—television static beside a glittering rain downpour reframes rain as natural static. The images foreground in-between states of place, channel, ground, and cloud, leaving narrative open-ended and uncertain.
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