Megan Ringrose is a contemporary experimental photographic artist, and researcher whose practice is rooted in material investigation, historical inquiry, and non-apparatus image-making. Working without a traditional camera, she creates photographic objects using handmade, often plant-based emulsions, exploring light, time, and materiality as essential elements of photography. Her work challenges conventional definitions of the medium, proposing innovative visual languages grounded in abstraction
RESEARCH INTERESTS
In my practice, I return to the beginnings of photography in search of new, sustainable solutions. By deconstructing recipes from the 1800s and earlier, I question our insatiable need to take photographs and propose a redefinition of the medium—one that is no longer bound to silver or plastic. By turning away from the photo-industrial ingredients that have long shaped photographic production, I make contemporary light-sensitive images that reference photography’s origins while conveying an urgent environmental and contextual message.
