K A R E N / G R A I N G E R / artist / photographer

"I must therefore submit to this law: I cannot penetrate, cannot reach into the Photograph. I can only sweep it with my glance, like a smooth surface. The photograph is flat, platitudinous in the true sense of the word, that is what I must acknowledge."

Roland Barthes, ‘Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography’.

Introduction:

I am interested in how we look at and visually engage with the external world, how we use photography to see and record what we look at and the perception of those images afterwards.

I often incorporate the mirror into my photographic works, either as an element captured within the image or as a physical property to interact with the materiality of the photographic print. The mirror has many intriguing links to the history of art and photography and I am interested in its potential use as a discursive marker in the activity of looking, representation and identity.