Before the event begins.

The racing produces its own photographs. These studies attend to everything else: the paddock before the gates open, Lusail under the lights, and the spaces between sessions that became the studio’s first publication.

Golf in the last light of Doha, a continental final under tournament light, tennis at the Hurlingham Club, an open in Ilkley, the rituals of a golf day in Leeds, and a World Cup received by an entire country. The event is the reason everyone is there; the atmosphere is what these studies keep.

And one study made without attending at all: a live broadcast, watched the way this archive watches everything, as an investigation into where authorship actually begins.

These are temporary worlds. They are assembled for a few days, sometimes a few weeks, then they are gone. The photographs are what remain.

Two of the Experience studies have continued as editorial publications, expanding beyond the study format into something that can be read rather than browsed.

• The Spaces Between: Formula One, Vol. I
• Waiting for Dusk

The Experience archive continues. Future access determines what comes next. The studies cannot be planned in advance, and the photographs that result depend entirely on the access that makes them possible.