Paper Geographies is a project that brings together artists who use photography to explore the relationships between materiality and place. Each of these artists proposes a critical relationship to place, whether local or global, real or imagined. Works address locations from around the world, and themes of globalisation, folklore, home, migration, trade and the Anthropocene are explored. The expanded field of photography is represented by works that challenge the medium’s own specificity; including documentary and appropriated imagery, performance and sculpture, moving image, analogue processes, digital and 3D animation. This diversity of practice asks the viewer to consider how the physicality of the photographic image impinges on our sense of place in the world.

Image: Ted Holborn, Aporia, 2020

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Paper Geographies is curated by Richard Page, a photographer and lecturer based at Manchester School of Art. Send a message using the opposite form, or follow on…