What are you working on now? I was working on a project in Germany, taking pictures of people at a bathhouse. It’s a portrait of the space through the subtle effects of temperature and relaxation, or possibly tension—I’m a stranger photographing them—on their faces. It’s a bit of a different project for me. A lot of my work relates to people and boundaries, and this addresses the subject and body in a very direct way.
Another project I’m working on is with a group that helps people who are chronically disorganised. I’m collaborating with personal organisers whose clients are in the process of re-evaluating the objects in their lives. They have the option to anonymously donate an object to the project, with a story to go along with it. I’ll decide how to work with the material once I've collect more.
Corinne spent seven years working on her exhibition and book, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, about the miniature, real crime scenes built in the 1940s and 50s by criminologist Frances Glessner Lee.
BABY'S CRIB
This is one of my favourites but it’s not for the faint of heart. Beyond the details of the case, this reflects for me the many contradictions encapsulated in the models: they represent a miniscule world of perfectly ordered chaos. They are simultaneously sweet and appalling, childlike and adult.
LIVING ROOM
In this case a woman called Ruby Davis was found dead on the stairwell. Her husband had called the police and said he’d found his wife lying there when he came down in the morning, but all the cigarettes and magazines are evidence of a sleepless night. What actually happened was he poisoned her and stayed up all night smoking cigarettes, trying to figure out what to do with her body.
For the Haunted House series Corinne travelled around the US alone, photographing the interiors of haunted houses and collecting the ghost stories behind them.
This one was interesting because no one outside the family had ever lived there, so it was very much connected to their history. I loved collecting oral stories in the South because storytelling and ghost stories are a big part of the culture there.
