Malcolm Leyland is an artist who works with photographic imagery, investigating distraction and memory as experiential, poetic phenomena. Distraction emerges through disjointed compositions and surprising juxtapositions, mirroring how attention fluctuates in daily life. His principal medium is photography, through which he questions its constraints and extends its creative boundaries. His work consistently manifests as an emotional response to his observations. Shapes, shadows, reality and impression are explored, where the existence of an object is defined by the impression of projected light, focusing on the definition of something rather than the thing itself.