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Frank’s Secret
       
     
Frank’s Secret

This series of photographs were all recorded one full moon evening during a program on Channel Four called ‘Frank’s Secret’. The TV program was a documentary about Frank Sinatra and the suspicion that the notorious mafia boss Lucky Luciano gave him a golden lighter which Sinatra took with him to his grave. That was Frank’s secret, as well as the un-official secret that he was connected to the underworld during his singing career. Using the idea of secrets as a metaphor, the secret in these photographs are somewhat more ambiguous and complex. The secrets here are multifarious as the people living in the house may be watching the programme about Frank’s secret or indeed have secrets of their own. On the other hand it may be that it is the photographer who has a secret; he is secretly photographing houses at night taking up a position akin to a peeping Tom or a spy. Indeed his secrets may be compulsory, contrived or of an invested interest. But perhaps more so, the voyeur is in fact the viewer who is looking at these pictures and whatever secret he or she may bring to the work. As in all art the work only exist if there is an audience, or as French philosopher Jacques Derrida reminds us, ‘that there is only a text if there is a reader.’

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