Steff Jamieson
The Reluctant Mute
The Reluctant Mute uses various devices to explore ideas regarding mutism, self-censorship and the failings of language. By returning to the fundamental properties of photography - light, time and photographic paper - and acknowledging the darkroom as a site of production and labour the work explicitly shows the process of making, bringing to the fore the agency of light as a form of inscription and pattern making. Patterns - both generated by the act of folding in the darkroom and re-appropriated from William Morris - break up, overlap and slip. Repeating the act of folding to both remember and to forget; an excess that mutes.
Julien Bonnin • Mia Dudek • Darek Fortas • Tom Hatton • Steff Jamieson • Ayesha Saeed • Tim Sullivan •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Leeds College of Art
MA Creative Practice
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography