Portraits of Connection

Through these photographs, Sarah Keen explores identity through the many influences that shape who we are. The work reflects an ongoing inquiry into what we inherit, what we carry, and what is revealed through connection with others.

Alex is a London-based street and portrait photographer. These self-portraits were built from experimentation with photographic and printing techniques, long exposures, layering, reflections...
To enact a feedback loop, the camera catching myself again and again, until looking and being looked at collapse into an uncertain image.

Xavier is a Brighton based photographer and visual artist interested in what happens when an image turns back on itself. Through interventions, collaboration and repetition, his work for this group exhibition explores identity, loss, memory, trauma, vulnerability and perceptions of himself, creating feedback loops between the photograph, its maker and its states of mind.

Nathan McLune is a London-based photographer whose work is driven by feeling, rejecting control and technical precision. External influences and overthinking fed into each other, forcing him inwards to produce authentic self-portraits that reveal parts of himself, while still concealing what he wants to remain hidden.

The camera doesn't always see you the way you see yourself. These self-portraits sit at different distances from that split, left for the viewer to close.

Self Feedback Loops. We often get caught in the feedback loops of our own minds, cycles of thoughts, feelings, projections and desires that inevitably circle back to our own identity

Duy loves photography and his photos are mostly driven by feelings, luck, and the sudden opportunity that happens when he has a camera. Initially, his work focused mostly on landscapes, though he's leaning more towards street photography these days. Through these feedback loops, he's been learning a lot more about his photography, helping him appreciate different styles and think outside the ordinary.

John lives and works in London. His imagery is led by living within a 21st century city while having a strong sense of its social history and community. Capturing these self-portraits is a response to living within the bustling metropolis, a reaction of being among the people and environments of the urban landscape, which informs the visual output.

Sheldon is an Indian based street photographer. He focuses on capturing the beauty in fleeting moments of daily life, but is experimenting with abstraction to explore the role love and faith have played in his life.