10 Days and Nights - 10 suspended perspex lenses with back-projected video

The Mediums Glasses I & II - Photographs printed onto old pairs of glasses using traditional darkroom techniques

I was inspired to produce a series of works based on nineteenth century occult and pseudo-scientific documentary photography. During the nineteenth century it was believed that camera technology could capture the spirit world and photographs appearing to show ghosts and a range of occult phenomena were often used as "evidence" for a world that lay beyond what we could see.

Laura Marker

Artists Statement

Laura Marker studied fine art at Wimbledon College of Art (MA 2012) and primarily works as a projection-based installation and digital collage artist. She is heavily influenced by concepts relating to the passage of time, visual “truth” and illusion and past events or social injustices that still hold relevance today. Her work makes reference to historical developments in photography, science fiction imagery, historical scientific documentation and the development of new technologies, in particular lens based technologies (magnifying lenses, projections, cameras).