Reflecting on photography’s complex and multifaceted role in war, ‘When the dust settles’ centres on the reworking of historical photographs of conflicts. These include iconic images of the September 11 attacks, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ‘Raising the flag on Iwo Jima’ by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press. These ubiquitous images are suffused with and imbue violence, and have been reproduced time and again.

Elements from these concomitant photographs are abstracted, overlaid, and reconstituted as montages before being subjected to physical interventions involving the expedient misuse of photographic chemicals. The resulting work, which bears a resemblance to an aged photograph, is an ersatz trace of the past – an intimation of authenticity, revealing images’ attendant failings at representing non-official as well as official histories.