My work is a combination of analogue photography and printmaking. I am making my analogue photographic practice more sustainable by using my own plant-based chemicals to develop and handprint my photographs. Each plant contains its own unique properties that affects the development of the photographs, offering a visual language of the seasonal cycles of hibernation and growth. I am interested in the challenges and failures of photography to capture a person’s essence, and the relationship that emerges between subject and artist. Working with plants is a way of making my practice more holistic as well as creating meaning on a symbolic level to represent emotional, mental and physical states of being. I see the resulting pictures as a collaboration between the photographer, subject, and the plant material that allows the imagery to grow and develop.