Personal / Subjective

How personal truth changes through memory and time. 

Process examples: diaristic work, revisiting the same moments or images, re-editing personal archives, film and digital comparisons.

Guiding questions:

• What changes when you look back at your own images?
• How does memory alter what a photograph claims to show?

Social / Collective

How shared truths are formed, challenged, and rewritten. 

Process examples: street photography with archival material, community-based projects, layering found and made images.

Guiding questions:

• Who decides which images represent a collective truth?
• How do images shift meaning as they circulate publicly?

Conceptual / Speculative

How photographic truth resists certainty. 

Process examples: staging, abstraction, manipulation, visual contradiction, fragmented narratives.

Guiding questions:

• What happens when an image refuses to explain itself?
• How can uncertainty become a method rather than a problem?

Experimental / Material

How truth changes through material transformation.

Process examples: altering negatives or files, repeated printing, degradation, collage, physical intervention.

Guiding questions:

• What is lost, gained, or distorted through process?
• When does material change become conceptual change?

Political / Critical

How truth is shaped by power, visibility, and circulation.

Process examples: documentary work, image and text, recontextualising media or official imagery.

Guiding questions:

• Whose truths are made visible, and whose are obscured?
• How do images function within systems of control or persuasion?

Temporal / Process-Based

How truth evolves over time.

Process examples: long-term observation, repeated visits, serial or time-based sequences.

Guiding questions:

• What does time reveal that a single image cannot?
• How does duration destabilise certainty?

Memory / Archive

How truth shifts when images are remembered, reused, or forgotten.

Process examples: personal or found archives, re-staging, scanning, re-editing historical images.

Guiding questions:

• What happens when images outlive their original context?
• How does reuse reshape meaning?

Experiential / Perceptual

How truth changes through bodily experience and perception.

Process examples: immersive or intuitive shooting, movement, blur, unstable framing, experimental optics.

Guiding questions:

• How does the body mediate what is seen?
• Can feeling become a form of evidence?

On Project Texts

Alongside visual work, include a short text describing what is in flux in your project, whether meaning, memory, context, authorship, or perception, and how your process engages with that shift. We are interested in how you are thinking through your work and how the images came to be.

A Small Reassurance

You do not need to fit neatly into any single approach. Hybrid, intuitive, or in-progress ways of working are welcome.