Ryan Foerster

Ryan Foerster is a photographer and zine-maker who uses salvaged and natural materials, and found objects. His technique is one of fetching, gathering and amalgamating. In synthesising his collected materials, Foerster encourages chance, accidents and mistakes, mimicking the disorder and disarray present in the natural world. Typical to his process, Foerster overlays photosensitive paper onto the ground and submerges it in the debris of woodland and other environments, covering the paper with soil, leaves, sticks and mulched down food scraps. This image-making, literally immersed in the natural, forges tangible links between the modern technology of photography and cycles of decay and eventual renewal, producing images filled with enigmatic texture, light and darkness. Written by Goldsmiths CCA