The photographs in Personified Spectre are an exploration of my fears; of the things I see in the shadows. The large-scale black and white photographs explore spectres that are perceived and convey my experiences and anxieties. The rich grey photographic grains seemingly dissolve into the black shadows of the artwork and ghostly spectres haunt the frame. The figure in the photograph represents my fears and perceived threats, rather than the fear of a physical presence but something intangible – ghosts or spectres. Drawing on metaphysical and psychological theory and photographic history I re-enact the spectres before the camera to be captured and frozen in time by the film. The artwork depicts the self, the self as the other, and the absence of either. Personified Spectre invites the viewer into my mind to experience my anxieties through my large-scale photographs. Personified Spectre will explore the photographic series of the same name through the exploration of Sigmund Freud’s The Uncanny, Julia Kristeva’s ideas around abjection, Georges Bataille’s formlessness, Francesca Woodman’s surrealist photographs, Salvador Dali’s surrealist film Un Chien Andalou and local history of photography and spiritualism.