Heather McDonough Photo Exhibition

Heather McDonough is an artist and educator who uses photography to observe and document; her work is often inspired by themes of memory and displacement. Born in Pennsylvania, in the United States, she has spent most of her life in London, where she has raised a family and where her photographic work focuses on community—both the local East End community and her American roots—creating exhibitions and installations that explore the notions of extended family and home. She works with a variety of photographic formats, techniques, and materials, incorporating found objects, cyanotypes, dioramas, folded structures, and book forms. She is a lecturer in photography at London Metropolitan University in London. She has been commissioned to lead various workshops and projects with major galleries and museums in London. The images in this exhibition are from a series created at St. John’s Church of England in Menton in 2003. “The interiors in this series reveal little-known stories. Ordinary objects and unremarkable details bear witness to routine, repetition, and ritual; and the black-and-white imagery focuses on unfamiliar forms.”