I’m happy to say that this print from my Ophelia series is in the group exhibition Do You Like Love? from Shutter Hub, hosted by Salt and Pegram.

The exhibition challenges photographers to present an original response to the theme. The show will test the traditional clichés and show you something new.

The exhibition runs from 2nd October to 26 November

Address: 63-65 Princelet Street, Spitalfields , E1 5LP

Opening times: Monday-Thursday 9am-5.30pm, Friday 9am-4.30pm. Closed on Saturdays and Sundays

The private view is on 15th October, from 6-9pm – click here for the invite

This image is part of a series that explores the story of Shakespeare’s Ophelia, made in response to studying previous artistic interpretations of the text. Combining underwater digital photography with alternative printing methods, this series studies the destruction and turmoil that lies beneath the romanticism and serenity suggested in traditional representations of her fate, both in image and process.

After creating these underwater photographs I repeatedly printed and re-photographed them using lo-fi techniques to simultaneously intensify and degrade the images. Whilst the title image is a composite of two photographs, the remainder are all single full frame images. In the final stage I used out-of-date Polaroid film to make water-based emulsion lifts onto textured watercolour paper; the destructive yet delicate nature of the process continuing the themes of the subject matter.

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Do You Like Love? is showing as part of the Photomonth East London Photography Festival.