Stephanie Mortimore- Gemini

Stephanie Mortimore is a photographic artist whose visual practice primarily considers 'lost' familial ephemera in her consideration of time, memory and transience. For Stephanie, the photograph is a form

of posthumous communication, projecting transitory appearances into the future; the print depicting corporeal bodies embalmed in the photographic emulsion like insects in amber. Through her engagement

with 'lost' photographs, she transforms the formal into the fantastical.

Stephanie’s photographic fascination is driven by a consideration of the medium's relationship with time, memory and transience. The photograph is a form of posthumous communication, projecting transitory appearances into the future; the print depicting corporeal bodies embalmed in the photographic emulsion like insects in amber.

Through her creation of 'Gemini', she engaged with photographs of unknown sitters, lost through time, connection and memory. She interpreted these anonymous sitters as constellatory bodies, granting them a bearing in time and space; astrological constellations pierce the photographic surface, transforming the formal into the fantastical. They are lost and reborn.

Website: www.stephaniemortimore.co.uk

Twitter: @StephanieMorti