The Breathe Series is where Charlotte's layering began. Landscapes, cities and countries across five continents, each built from many of her own photographs.
A place cannot be held in one image. The layers come from different views of it, at different times, sometimes from across a whole country. It started as a way to keep more of a place than one frame allows, and it became the method behind everything that followed.
The impulse is Impressionist. Colors shift, light and shadow diffuse, and what settles is an impression of a place rather than a record of one moment in it.
The series asks the viewer to feel a place as it lives in memory rather than as it looked on any one afternoon.
