Jo Bradford Portal: Sky Cameraless Photography Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Jo Bradford was born in Hertfordshire, UK, and raised in South Africa. She now lives on Dartmoor, UK with her two children. Jo has worked with experimental, alternative process and cameraless photographs in her colour darkroom for over two decades. Jo has exhibited widely and has works in public and private collections around the world. Her work is created using only the primary tools of analogue photography, with precisely timed flashes of light captured on light sensitive paper in utter darkness. These detailed working methods produce in essence a kind of pure photography - not representational of the external physical world, but acutely resonant of something entirely more abstract and possibly internal. Whatever the resonance, there is a subversion, or inversion of the photographic process as it's commonly understood. Education Master's Degree (Distinction) in Photography: Critical Practice from University College Falmouth in 2004 Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibitions Photo London. Gas Gallery - Somerset House, The Strand, London, UK. 2021 Expo Chicago. NFP Editions with the Tate and Whitechapel Gallery - Navy Pier, Chicago USA. 2019 Women In Colour: Anna Atkins, Colour Photography and Those Struck by Light - Galerie Miranda, Paris, France. 2019 The Armory Show. Field Editions / NFP Editions; with the Tate - Piers 90, 92, and 94, New York, USA. 2019 Fotofever Art Fair - Paris, France. 2018 Expo Chicago. Field Editions / NFP Editions with the Tate and the Royal Academy et al - Navy Pier, Chicago USA. 2018 NADA New York. Field Editions - Skylight Clarkson Square, New York, USA. 2018 NADA Miami. Field Editions at NADA PROJECTS - Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA. 2017 Expo Chicago. Field Editions at Expo Editions - Navy Pier, Chicago USA. 2017 London Art Fair. Eyestorm Gallery - Islington, London, UK. 2017 Lutyens - Showing 22 works by Bradford at 85 Fleet Street, London, UK. 2016 Facing Changes - Guys Hospital, London, UK. 2015 Bristol Festival of Photography - Bristol, UK. 2014 The Photocopy Club presents Space is Ace - Doomed Gallery, Dalston, London, UK. 2014 Photogram - Urmson Burnett Gallery, Salisbury, UK. 2014 Beautiful Science at the Imperial Science Festival - London, UK. 2013 Beautiful Science - Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK. 2012 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-134 - Launched 16th May 2011, docked with the international space station, orbited for 16 days and 16 million miles around earth, returned to earth. Cliché Verre in the Digital Age - Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA. 2011. Photo Alchemy - 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA. 2011 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 2011 Facing Changes - Gordon Museum, London, UK. 2011 Low Tech - Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. 2010 Urban - Stramash Space, Glasgow, UK. 2010 Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA. 2010 Fort Worth Art Centre, Texas, USA. 2010 Light! Colour! - Madera Design Studio, Downtown, Los Angeles, USA. 2009 La Galerie D'Art - Atelier Mandarine, Brest, France. 2007 Indications of the Infinite - Out Of Place Gallery, Porthtowan, Cornwall, UK. 2007 Heart Of A Garden - Great Oak Hall, Westonbirt National Arboretum, UK. 2007 Cream Of The Crop - Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK. 2003 Homegrown - Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK. 2002 Out Of Bounds - Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire, UK. 2000 Awards 2016 - Arts Council England - Grants for the Arts Award. 2015 - DNPA 'Your Dartmoor Fund' Grant - Project Funding Award. 2010 - AA2A - Artist in Residence Scheme - Plymouth College of Art. 2008 - Saatchi Gallery & Harper Collins Publishers - Finalist -Book Cover Design. 2006 - Unlocking Cornish Potential - Graduate Placement Award. 2004 - Fenton Arts Trust Grant - Project Funding Award. 2003 - Arts Council England - Creative Development Award. 2003 - West Midlands Arts - Funding Award. 2002 - Arts Council England - Creative Development Award. 2002 - West Midlands Arts - Funding Award Gallery Representation Gina Cross Art + Design Eyestorm Gallery Miranda Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My photography begins in the absence of light. Undertaken in a completely black darkroom, in a time-consuming process requiring decades of practiced hand movements to mask light exposures and with continuous precise adjustments made to an array of dials and buttons not visible to the eye my work begins. Combining this with an understanding of the way colours mix in light to create primary and tertiary colours, and through a lot of trial and error and endless patience, hands and masks are used to create areas of shadow, which alter the path of light on its way to the paper during the brief flashes of light exposure. This non-figurative work subverts the established fidelity of the photograph as a record of an object, referring only to itself, without seeking to illustrate or represent anything. In a sense, it is a self-portrait made of photography, whereby the photographic means becomes the object and the medium becomes the subject.