The Artists

Maurizio Anzeri works with found photographs, embellishing them with coloured threads to create exquisite, almost sculptural works. Anzeri transforms these straight family portraits into three-dimensional objects embued with an intense psychological dimension.

Gabriele Beveridge’s Polaroid works draw attention to the artifice of image-making and play with the elision of scale inherent in the photographic process. Found transparencies and photographs she takes herself are collaged, cut up and reprinted as Polaroids.

David Birkin's work is informed by the history of photography and its relationship to performance in contemporary art. For this exhibition, he invited a soldier from the British Army to stand alone in a room facing a camera and to confess a secret he had never previously revealed. When the soldier felt ready, he opened the camera's shutter and when he was finished, he closed it again so that the photograph's exposure was determined by the length of his confession

Produced from an unpredictable chemical and mixed-media process combining standard photography with cinematography, Robin Cracknell’s photographs are deteriorating documents of childhood disappointments and adult regret. By scratching and treating the photographs, Cracknell attempts to impose on them a layer of truth that film alone can’t contain.

Hannah Dakin explores the limits of surface, texture and visibility within the medium of photography. Her approach plays with the idea of the photograph as object – she prints on different textures which are then layered, often with a film of wax in between – and her works tries to capture a daydreaming-like state when memory is far from precise and the boundaries between fact and fiction blur.

Korean artist DY Kim photographs objects from different angles and then layers the negatives – sometimes as many as 8 – on top of each other. A new image is created out of these photographs, which capture the object in 360 degrees, accentuating its three-dimensional potential and painterly qualities of photography.