Seminar: Image, Environment, Action: Photography and Sustainability

Hannah Fletcher is a visual artist, based in the UK, working predominantly across analogue photography. Using a DIY, low-impact, low-waste approach, Hannah expands on photography to think through complex relationships between materials, making and capitalism. Incorporating waste from previous projects, she finds that the residues and remnants from her photographic practice, often pull her into unchartered territories and new mediums. This approach of photographic expansiveness and fluidity, while simultaneously maintaining careful relationship with materials and place, brings Hannah into deep connection with our ecosystem. It is a slow, perceptive process, one full of mistakes, but simultaneously full of continuous learning, gratitude and wonder. https://www.hannahfletcher.com/
Hannah is the founder of the Sustainable Darkroom, a charity dedicated to researching and disseminating lower-toxicity photographic materials and methods and co-directs London Alternative Photography Collective, is represented by Land Art Agency and is a facilitator of sustainability within the arts. https://sustainabledarkroom.com/ 

Marjolaine Ryley is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Sunderland. Her practice encompasses photography, creative writing, plant-made imagery and participatory practice to explore the horti-counterculture, politics and collaborative plant-human encounters in the vegetal world. Marjolaine’s work has been exhibited at Hestercombe Art Gallery, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Street Level Photoworks and Impressions Gallery. She has recently been an artist in residence with Dilston Physic Garden, Wallington Hall (National Trust) and The Photographic Garden, an initiative of the Sustainable Darkroom. Marjolaine completed her PhD, Time, Image, Archive: Visualising Gardening Communities through Auto-Ethnographic Photographic Practice in 2026. @marjolaineryley