MOVEMENT
AS METHOD
I work in Intentional Camera Movement: photographs made by moving deliberately during exposure, so that a place is recorded as trace rather than as fact. Within that field I have named and developed two further methods: Intentional Focus Movement and Intentional Parallax Movement.
Three ways of moving
All three sit within the academic field of Intentional Camera Movement. What differs is what moves: the body, the plane of focus, or the point of view.
Intentional Camera Movement
The camera is moved deliberately while the shutter is open, so a place is recorded as the trace of a gesture rather than a list of its details. Edges become vectors and facades become weather.
Intentional Focus Movement
The camera holds still and the plane of focus is driven through the subject during the exposure. A single form is recorded resolved and dissolved at once. My own term, and my own method.
Intentional Parallax Movement
The viewpoint itself moves, so near and far planes displace against each other and depth does the drawing. My second named method inside the ICM field.
Six bodies, one gesture
One frame from each series. Each opens its method page, where the body of work is shown in full, alongside how it is made.
WALK
THE GALLERY
The walk through needs a computer or a tablet. Open this page on a larger screen and the doors unlock.
Twelve rooms around one circuit: six for the movement series, six for the albums. Click the floor to walk there, click a picture to stand square to it, and drag to look around.
Shown on six continents
Thirty-three showcases across twenty-two cities and eighteen countries.
Drag to turn the globe, scroll or pinch to zoom. Countries with a showcase are drawn in gold and every lit point is a city. Point at either one and the venues appear here, with the pieces shown there. Click a country to fill the view with it. On a touch screen, tap instead.
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Three decades, counted
Over a hundred awards, thirty-three international showcases, and the honours, judging benches and accreditations behind them.
Authenticity, authorship, accountability
Assistive AI cleans a sensor, finds a focus point, lifts a shadow. Generative AI makes the picture. The line between the two thins every year, and that is why these three questions are the ones worth asking of any image: what was actually recorded, who made it, and who answers for it. As an art form the distinction still holds. A photograph has to be photographic: light, a lens, a moment somebody stood in. A prompt draws a picture out of words. I study both and I label both, and none of the prompt work is in these galleries.
Weekly News Brief: AI & Photography
Each week I read what has happened to photography because of AI and write it down plainly, for photographers rather than for engineers. The series is collected by the National Library of Australia.
Aperture & Algorithm
Every month, for the Photography Society of Hongkongers in Australia, I write about what the month in AI actually changes for people who still go out and photograph.
Six seats at the table
Content Authenticity Initiative
AI Subcommittee
AI Advisory Committee
AI Working Group
Talks and judging
Where the argument gets made in person: club nights, national forums and judging benches.
Audio-Visual Spring National 2025
The 3As of AI and Photography
International AI Forum
Twenty-six organisations
Government departments, museums, universities, manufacturers and photographic societies who have commissioned, published, exhibited or invited the work.
"I must congratulate you, Jacky, on the excellent images on your website. You have some beautiful work there. We're really impressed."
Elaine HerbertRPS President's Medal Recipient, 2025
"Your knowledge and professional acumen greatly contributed to the high standard and rigorous judging framework central to the contest's success."
Dr. Benoit GuénardDirector, Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
"Team PSA is extremely impressed with your profile and would like to welcome you among our distinguished Mentors."
Sanjoy SenguptaDirector, Photographic Society of America
"Your expertise was instrumental in the campaign's resounding success. Your selection of photographs captured the village's essence and amplified our efforts to promote the conservation of cultural heritage."
Sylvia ChungChief Business Impact Officer, Chinachem Group
Prints, teaching, commissions
Collector editions of any work in the archive, one-to-one mentoring across every genre I photograph, and commissioned architectural and aerial work.