Alan Knox
Eternal Return
In ancient alchemy, Sol Niger (Black Sun) referred to the dark light used to illuminate the departed, becoming a symbol of enlightenment borne through loss. Composing black and white photographs on a windowpane to obscure the light of the Sun, this series portrays my turn to photography as a means of overcoming family bereavement, questioning the use of photographs in the cyclical nature of mourning and passing of memories across generations whilst constructing an ancestral past which may belong more to dreams and myth than reality. The series further seeks to explore photography’s links to alchemy as the forerunner to chemistry, inviting the viewer to decode the photograph as an alchemical trace of light within darkness and darkness within light.
Maria Ahmed • Philippa Bloomfield • Aina Maria Cantallops Cifre • Danyi Feng • Pamela Gomez • Megan Rose Goodwin • Alan Knox • Myrto Kyritsi • Weiyu Lin • Renáta Liszi • Bob Marsden • Iana Mizguina • Iris Papasava • Marta Poncelas • Lynsie Roberts • Justyna Solnica • Gisela Torres • Huiying YUE • Yifan Yang • Eclair Ziping Liu •
University for the Creative Arts
MFA Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Ulster University
MFA Photography
University of Westminster
MA Photography Arts
University of Westminster
MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism