About

Susannah was given her first camera at the age of eleven. She started photographing anything and everything. An enterprising teacher taught her the process of film development and she spent many stolen hours in the school dark room discovering the alchemy of printing. Later, when living in Milan she continued experimenting using an enlarger placed precariously on the kitchen table and a blanket on the window. She misses the manual dexterity of the dark room, from the quiet anticipation as negatives were unwound from the reel to the gradual emergence of dark marks on paper to form the final image. Much of her work today still draws from the skills she honed during those early days, albeit through different means.