Cary’s research focuses on the medium of photography and how combinations of straightforward photographic techniques make a significant difference to how pictures are experienced and understood. She prefers to describe her research methodology as an art practice.
Her research question emerged through the exploration of various subjects and themes. Photographs of human and dolls’ lips dealt with desire, sexuality and death. Rural and urban landscape photographs linked the wilderness to the city or made the city into visual ‘sculpture’.
In 2005, Cary made a traditional book of her photographs of women’s peace protests at Greenham Common (Visit Cary Welling's website). This reawakened her interest in the book form and she is currently producing two books that explore the inter-relationship of structure, text and images and how they create or recreate ideas and experiences.
