Steve Lovett’s practice operates between design, photography, both captured through the lens and found, hand-cut collage digital and printed media. Central to Lovett’s practice is idea of separation, that the image only coming into view once it is cleaved from the file, negative, plate, block or screen. Once that moment of separation takes place the resulting image and that which have formed it become forever more distant from one another. The image takes on new meaning as it becomes more distant from its point of origin. Lovett has written that photography is about history, quite literally an event captured through the lens, printed media is about recollection, a sense of returning to reappraise an initial image, event, observation. In this body of work, unendingbeginning, Lovett reassembles the common form of the Instagram reel, stilling it, and discerning the opportunity to subtract the velocity of images in circulation, to make a counter-narrative seem possible.

You can follow Steve on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stevelovettnz/

Some of Steve’s work is also available to purchase in theend store