Making Art Together

Jordan Carroll and Katie Cooper photograph each other, their friends, their corner of Manchester - the rainbows above the house, the spider in the bushes, the sleeping cat. They’re the kind of photographers who actually notice what’s around them. You can feel it in the images.

Making art with someone else is different from making it alone. When you’re solo, in front of the screen, waiting for the work to feel alive, it becomes this lonely thing. But when you’re creating alongside a friend - sharing the thinking, the failures, the moments when you have to figure it out together - it’s more honest. It’s messier. It’s better.

I don’t know if Jordan and Katie set out to make a point about friendship and creativity, but that’s what their work is: evidence that two people can notice the same world together, and that makes everything different. It doesn’t matter if the result is genius or total garbage. The fact that it exists, made together, is what counts.