Quiet, structured, elegant, unsettling - all these words describe Deborah Paauwe's colour photographs ... but not quite. These are precise images, unrelenting in their closeness, detail and flat lighting.

And there are implicit narratives everywhere (especially in titles such as Hide & Seek, Dark Fables or Small Hours). There are stories with no beginnings or happy endings, just fragments of staged time with little or no context. But these moments are hardly empty. In fact, the photos seem full of gesture, intimacy and cross-generational femininity.

The figures in Paauwe's images are usually truncated girls or women, cut by the frame. And this is the same for the narratives that run through and across each series. Chinese Whispers (right) features a pair of whispering prom- or bridesmaid-dressed teenage girls. There's an air of intimacy as one touches the other, faces close, buried under falling hair.

Many of Paauwe's photographs also pay fastidious attention to the hands - two openly displaying nails bitten to the quick. All these gestures suggest adolescent rites of passage, staged and nervous play, generic mother/daughter moments, each crossing multiple memories and

(im)personal stories. All this detail, but never a 'real' face.

Of course, evoking childhood memory is hardly new, but Paauwe brings to this genre such intensity in formal composition, consistency in vision and a paradoxically detached intimacy that it's hard not to be pulled in. Yes, they're quiet. They do require a bit of contemplation. But if you spend time luxuriating over the great detail, you just might get lost in a story fragment, in a clutched bit of cloth or porcelain patch of skin. Then you may begin to see how photography can balance the intensely personal with the socially relevant all at once.

Ends Apr 25