These Rooted Bodies - Exhibition

Epha J. Roe, visiting photography lecturer, presents these rooted bodies; an exhibition held in the main corridor of the College Road campus. 

These Rooted Bodies is a combination of art-based research and photographic experimentation that asks how working creatively with plants, beyond mere representation, may open-up material connections between photographic and plant material. Working with a series of young and ancient oak trees in England as a series of case studies that also approach the history and biology of the oak, These Rooted Bodies examines photography and plants’ dual reliance on the “transformative qualities of light” to explore new ways of interacting with and imaging trees.

Epha is a research-based artist specialising in photographic processes that examine human relationships and the natural world. They use a variety of traditional, modern and experimental techniques to explore the limits of the medium. Epha is currently a practice-based PhD student at the University of Brighton. See their work here.