Ryan Dodd

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Artist Bio

As an interdisciplinary artist, my work investigates the poetics of the everyday through the lens of affect, exploring the subtle, often overlooked emotional currents that shape our daily lives. Using photography as a primary medium—alongside video, text, and installation—I capture fleeting moments, mundane spaces, and intimate gestures to reveal the depth and resonance embedded in the ordinary.
My practice is rooted in an attunement to atmosphere, memory, and sensation. I am drawn to the ways in which light, texture, and composition can evoke complex emotional states, creating images that hover between presence and absence, familiarity and estrangement. By emphasizing stillness, repetition, and traces of human touch, my work amplifies the emotional weight of minor details—a crumpled bedsheet, an unspoken glance, the residue of movement in an empty space.

Photography, for me, is less about documentation and more about perception: how emotions surface through objects, how time lingers in the material world, and how images can act as conduits for feeling. Through this lens, my work offers a meditation on the ephemeral, seeking to slow down perception and invite viewers into a space of quiet reflection, where the everyday becomes luminous and affectively charged.

As a PhD candidate in fine art photography at the University for the Creative Arts my current research focuses on the weird and the uncanny. My work has previously exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London, the Herbert Read gallery in Canterbury, and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography.

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Artwork

Name: Nature Reclaims

Moss overtakes a grit bin. Framed photographic print.

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