Bryan Locke combines oral history and large format staged photography to interrogate the performance of self. Utilising a view camera and lighting, Locke constructs narrative tableaux and landscapes informed by extended interviews and emotional arcs. His practice examines the intersection of memory and environment, exploring how identity is verbally articulated, visually interpreted and performed within the shifting bayous of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Salted Hands explores the dynamics of people working with and against nature, focusing on commercial fishing communities and how traditional masculine identities are embodied through oral histories and images in environments shaped by risk and labour.