This series began while collecting Metro News headlines that seemed almost too strange to be true. With no images to accompany them, I began recreating the stories as photographs, treating each headline as a prompt for an imagined scene. Questioning whether an image could make these stories seem more plausible — and why I felt the need to illustrate something I could barely imagine being real. If both the text and the image can be constructed, where does the sense of truth come from?
Lion mauls woman to death while she has sex with a lover
Cyclist and stewardess cheat death twice after switching flight plans
Black magic 'trapped us in a hotel'
Hairdresser high on meth died at zoo dressed in bondage gear
Worm in my brain almost killed me
‘Black widow’ married her stepson
Masked raiders stole woman’s diamond ring as her baby slept
Trainee Army officer hid in kadet’s room to spy on her naked