Mark Ingham

"My photographic images are an exploration into experiences of remembering and forgetting. I am attempting to evoke a form of 'paramnesia', whereby fantasy and reality collapse to create a sense of déjà vu. In my photographic work I am interested in the tension between the hallucinatory qualities of some photographs and the seeming 'realness' they have."


In a vaulted room in the catacombs, light from twelve torches shines through twelve colour transparencies, and then through the back of twelve old cameras. Twelve glowing circular images dot the ceiling, walls and floor. Caught in this fragile telescopic world, a young boy summersaults and hovers forever above an icy cold swimming pool.

Mark uses photographs inherited from his grandfather's collection of 5,000 slides as a source for this work. He says: "A strange loop occurs whereby what once had been captured from the world is projected back into the world using the same apparatus for both procedures, light being the medium both of exposure and revelation."

Mark Ingham is a third year PhD research student at Goldsmiths. He has recently shown 12 of his photographic prints in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' at the Metropole Galleries, Folkestone.

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