The Swimmers is a series in which I look at identity linked to space and how we think of home. The work has grown out of circumstances that are not uncommon, in that they involve a state of being in the world that is a defining trait of our generation: a sense of displacement; an awareness of foreignness and a search for belonging that cannot be tied to one fixed geographical or ideological place.There has been no attempt to accomplish the traditional aim of the photographic portrait - that being to capture and portray some sense of the sitter's personality. I view “Identity” as a fiction: a series of instances, narrating something that we perceive as an integrated self. The people in my images act as signs, merely pointing to “the human;” a possible portrait of the collective psyche, as impacted by progress.Long before embarking on this series, I experienced an uncontrollable desire to stand at the shoreline; to look outwards on the dissolving of limits that separate me from those I love. The ocean is both the barrier and the passage; the swimmers are those caught in that liminal space, where borders are constantly erased and redrawn.