Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing led to the self-published photobook Apparent Retrograde in July 2019. The book consists of photographic studies of the moon made over roughly 18 months from January 2018 to June 2019. The image sequence demonstrates the malleability of the visual information resulting from astrophotography's combination of observation, data collection and software rendering. Picking up from the visual language developed in this initial series, lun.r evolved into a series of cycles that expand on this idea of malleability with increasing manipulation. Each cycle begins with observation and data collection and pursues a different aspect of photographic visualization, a new way of seeing, leveraging various tools in the contemporary image maker’s kit to achieve the desired results and investigating those very tools in the process.
