Peonies

Description

Jo is a photographer who works by hand and by chemistry, a rare process today. Her images, whether a single rose or a body of work about war and memory, are made through old and experimental darkroom processes rather than a camera alone, so each one carries the weight of both the subject and the time spent making it.

She works with historic and experimental processes, among them the silver gelatin chemigram, made by painting chemistry straight onto light-sensitive paper. Her larger projects build slowly around themes of trauma, war, memory and loss, using archive material, oral history and a measure of imaginative reconstruction.