Stephanie Mortimore
Séance
The photograph is a form of posthumous communication, projecting transitory appearances into the future; the print depicting corporeal bodies embalmed in the photographic emulsion like insects in amber. My practice regards 'lost' photographs in considering the spiritual landscape of the 19th century - routinely regarded as the era of secularisation - and the Victorian practice of séance and spirit photography. Although the Bible strictly forbade communication with spirits; séance, automatic writing and Ouija boards - like photography - became newly domesticated. Working instinctively with existing photographs, 'Séance' transforms the formal into the fantastical, the non-physical bodies of the sitters surrounded by implied spirit energies. They are lost and reborn.
Nicola Bowen • Jasmine Gore • Alice Howard • Nathon Milisic • Stephanie Mortimore • Carla Nyanyo • Henry Rice • Mark J Rothberg • Claire Smout • Danielle Sowter • Adam Stephenson •
Bath Spa University
BA (Hons) Photography
Ulster University Belfast
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Blackburn College
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Blackpool and the Fylde
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University of Brighton
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Arts University Bournemouth
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University of Chester
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University of Cumbria
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Dublin Institute of Technology
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Edinburgh College
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Edinburgh Napier University
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Falmouth University
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Hereford College of Arts
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University of Huddersfield
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University Centre, Hugh Baird College
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UCS Ipswich
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Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design
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Leeds College of Art
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Limerick School of Art & Design
Photography & Lens Based Media - BA (Hons) Fine Art
National College of Art and Design
Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
University of Portsmouth
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UCA Rochester
BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
Sheffield Hallam University
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Southampton Solent University
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Staffordshire University
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Swansea College of Art, UWTSD
BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Swansea College of Art, UWTSD
BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography