2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

As far as the eye can see

Julie Purdie

As far as the eye can see, 2025 archival inkjet print on cotton rag, from an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) B-scan 100 x 100 cm


This enlarged OCT scan of a retina with geographic atrophy reimagines vision loss as a mountainous landscape. From over 3 metres away, sighted viewers begin to see the pixelated image transform into abstract terrain. For those with advanced macular degeneration, however, the image dissolves into the grey void of their central vision loss. The work invites reflection on perception, absence, and the unseen worlds shaped by vision impairment.