Open Theme nominee

The photographic assemblage series was created by Gemma Pepper from Switzerland.

In her work practice, she seeks to suspend and transcend time and space, always searching for the connection between the past and the present. Further she explores the meaning of nostalgia and memory photographs as aesthetic objects and cultural artifacts. Accordingly, the following questions are always central to her work. What does a photograph do? What ideas and visions of the world's future can photographs reproduce by recontextualizing them into something new?

Gemma Pepper is a British artist and photographer living in Switzerland. She studied photography at Llandrillo College, Rhos-on-Sea, North Wales, Great Britain and at the University of Derby, England, Great Britain. She also graduated with a Master of Arts ZFH in Art Education, with a Specialization in Curatorial Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland in 2021. Her analogue collages and fine art photographs have been presented and published internationally and are held in private and public collections. In her work practice, she seeks to suspend and transcend time and space, always searching for the connection between the past and the present.

Awards
Emerging Photographer Award Feature Shoot -Single Image 2021
Shortlisted for the Neo Art prize, Bolton
Community Foundation Award, Derby,England
Museum of Derby Award,England

Selection of Exhibitions
2021
- Feature Shoot Street Exhibition, Los Angeles
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- Feature Shoot Street Exhibition, New York
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- Boomer Gallery, London
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- Foley Gallery, New York
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- Van der Plas Gallery, New York
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- The Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
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- The Blank Wall Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
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2020
- Noorderlicht Photography Festival, The Netherlands
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- Swiss Photo Club, Zurich