Fotosushka: Abstract Photography

Abstract photography does not render reality literally: form, colour, texture, line, light and shadow take over. The genre developed in the early twentieth century alongside modernism and the avant-garde. Man Ray made photograms without a camera, laying screws, springs and combs directly on photographic paper. László Moholy-Nagy, who taught at the Bauhaus, worked with glass, grids and transparent forms in light. Barbara Morgan photographed dancers, turning movement and light into graphic form.

Material for abstraction is close at hand: details of everyday objects seen from an unusual angle, motion and blur, the textures of walls, water or metal, reflections, shadows, double exposure.

Fotosushka is a one-day show of analogue photographs, hand-printed by the photographers who took them. Each participant will show one print of up to 30×40 cm; digital prints are not accepted. Visitors will be able to talk to the photographers and swap or buy prints. If you don't have a print yet, you can make one in our darkroom.

Photographers will hang their work from 16:00; the show is open to visitors from 17:00 to 22:00.

Anyone can take part, whatever their experience. Admission is free.