Proposed exhibition

As this project proposal focuses on the condition of living with light pollution, it feels appropriate and relevant to let my audience experience the work in the very place it was created: my home.

I intend to place and exhibit the images in the very same locations they were exposed around my house so the viewer can experience the amount of artificial light that intrudes various spaces [Fig.7].

In addition to the conceptual relevance, hosting the exhibition in my own house greatly reduces the logistics and accompanying travel, production, power consumption and resources involved with exhibiting in a more traditional gallery space, therefore reducing the projects carbon footprint.

Using one’s house as an exhibition space has been done before by photographers such as Mark Duffy whose images for his project ‘In The Wake Of Brexit’ were installed in each room of his house to make visible and exaggerate the experience of ‘living with Brexit’ over a period of one month [Fig.8].

Public audiences were encouraged to enter the house, open drawers and cupboards and scrutinise political, personal and collective narratives of Brexit. Inspired by this approach, I will explore how my narrative could be further expressed through various features of my house.

Dates reflect the first Monday of the month/last monday of the previous month

Peer learning chat

Research of eco-friendly photographic emulsions

In the initial stages will explore coating various handmade papers/materials using a range of less harmful chemicals such as Anthotype, Caffenol, Chlorophyl, Cyanotype and other experimental processes to capture artificial light in my home

Image creation

On a twice weekly basis, I will originate new photographic artworks with the above processes

Digitalisation of artworks

For sharing on social media and archiving

Critical feedback

Display/ presentation research

Research and discuss with potential vendors

Presentation/installation

To begin work on display/presentation concepts within my home

Define reading list

In order to contextualise the work within the latest photographic theory, I will research the latest relevant practitioners and theory