photographic artist
Sarah Beatty is a photographic artist and researcher working with long exposure pinhole photography and analogue darkroom processes.
Her practice explores perception, consciousness and the relationship between photography and subjective experience, often through themes of trauma, dissociation and healing. Drawing on both lived experience and critical research into photographic indexicality, her work considers the image as a space of transformation rather than documentation alone.
Through experimental methods and immersive visual language, Beatty’s practice investigates how photography can articulate altered states of being, memory and psychological repair.
Research Interests
- Photographic indexicality
- Consciousness and perception
- Altered states of consciousness
- Phenomenology
- Trauma and dissociation
- Experimental analogue photography
- Pinhole photography and darkroom practice
Technical Practice
- Long exposure pinhole photography
- Analogue darkroom printing
- Experimental photographic processes
- Medium format / large format photography
- Black and white darkroom techniques
- Installation and sequencing
“The photographic image is formed through the physical action of light reflecting from a referent onto a photosensitive surface such as film or a digital sensor.”
