Alison J Carr has produced a series of self portraits based on cigarette card images of 1930’s dancers that she found at a car boot sale. Each black and photograph shows the artist taking on the role of the dancers, her meticulous use of lighting, costume, poise and expression remaining faithful to the originals.

Lesley Guy’s work seeks to re-evaluate ideas of beauty, identity and relationships, with a specific focus on the posed or formal photographic portrait. Guy has developed a process of manipulating both the sitter - usually herself - and the photograph to create the effect of a semi-negative image. Tonal values are reversed; light appears as dark and vice versa, but not consistently throughout the image. The effect is disorientating and requires the viewer to adjust to what they think they are seeing.

Laure Carnet uses parts of the body in her work to represent emotional states and the nuances of communication and relationships. Imagery, sound and setting are carefully selected to explore the ways in which these states can be transcribed, the artist seeking to express these without resorting to facial expressions.

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