These pictures are a response to the riots that happened in Malaysia in 1998 when Anwar Ibrahim, the Deputy Prime Minister, was arrested.

I found myself watching the events on television in Australia. I could see that they were happening on streets and in locations I was familiar with. This feeling of familiarity was a strange contrast to the television experience, which placed events at a remove, giving them the status of 'foreign news'.

The pictures explore the experience of looking, but a looking that is mediated by distance and by the various frames that come between the event and the viewer.