Paul Harris

Paul Harris is a photographer based in South East Queensland with a 30 year career spanning Australia and overseas. His current practice centres on sun activated, iron based photographic processes printed onto fabric panels and assembled into large scale composite fields that translate the tide marked pillars of Tallebudgera Creek Bridge into a modular surface. Seawater is used to stabilise the prints and tannins extracted from local foliage shift the works’ tonal register, embedding the coastal environment within the chemistry of the image.

The ocean inscribes itself on both the pillars and the prints, as does the surrounding ecosystem. Through this approach, Harris considers infrastructure as an archive of tidal systems, where deep time becomes visible against the human temporal scale. His work engages repetition and duration, positioning photography as a site where environment and constructed form remain in dialogue.