‘Photography leans toward the literal, its capacity for dead-eye mimicry tending to yoke it to the figure. But the medium’s materiality, as Megan Ringrose’s fresh and welcome exhibit – Fabric of Photography: Material Matters – illuminates, also shapes photography’s mnemonic and affective force. Photography is not simply the reflector in images of the material world, it is also of the material world, material in itself, light’s trace or stain on substrate. Photography’s origins emerge dually and in tandem from the urge to create the figure, through the writing of light, and the experimental fascination with the materiality of making light’s mark stay. This second strand in the weft of photography, the material, tactile, haptic, mark of light as imprint on substrate, is the colloquy of Fabric of Photography. Here, the hand’s touch and the figure’s absence bring the photographic image closer, into the visual field, shedding the discourse of imagined scenes that figural photography conjures, and also removes the viewer from the trompe l’oeil of representation, carrying us through to the directness of presentation. Well-chosen works by Neil Ayling, John A Blythe, Sylvie Bonnot, Ellen Carey, Alice Cazenave, Karel Doing, Nettie Edwards, Hannah Fletcher, Anna Luk, Rita Rodner, Megan Ringrose, and Kateryna Snizhko, carry this theme of the material object that is the photograph. Ringrose’s choreography of the whole is admirable.

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Anna Luk’s camera-less images harken back to Anna Atkins’ botanical photograms, infusing this camera-less tradition of the photograph as light’s direct imprint (rather than the trace of light’s reflection off other material forms) with vibrant contemporary colour.’

- Excerpt from Photomonitor, Claire Raymond