Hannah Fletcher

Delighted to share my upcoming exhibition Photo.Petro.Chemical.Capital @omvedgardens On display 7th May - 7th June, you can visit the exhibition during public events and open weekends at the gardens. More info via @omvedgardens 's website. Special press viewing 9th May 2-5pm RSVP essential: [email protected]

A few images of me, under the Chilean spring light last November, taken by the lovely @llousephin . Connecting and working closely with like minded individuals all over the world, is something that I cherish deeply in what I do. These images were taken while I was working with artists @llousephin and @andreanovoa at thier lab and studio in Pucón, Chile. I spent 2 weeks in the place they call home. Throughout these days, I taught nearly every process I know! From tri-tone cyanotype, anthotype with local flowers, Chlorophyll prints, pin-hole cameras, Phytograms on paper and negatives, semi-solid developers, plant-based developers* using ascorbic acid including fermentation extractions, iron developers, iron emulsions, natural toners, chemical composting, salt fixers and waste management. We also grew and harvested SCOBYs to use with anthoypes and cyanotypes as a photographic base support. Throughout the week we discussed systems, infrastructure, land relations and community. Rethinking their creative practices and the way their lab functions, in relationship the ecosystem it exists within. As Josefina says "This tutorial transformed the way I create and understand my craft." "It was an invitation to rethink our creative cycles and make circularity a fundamental principle. Sustainability became a path of research, which today I am excited to continue exploring and integrating in my work." This was the first flight taken for my work since starting @sustainabledarkroom . It took me a little while to decide if the impact I would make on these people and place would be worth the emissions of the flight. I certainly feel I made the right decision. 💫

Photo.Petro.Chemical.Capital A solo show by @hfletch in on show @omvedgardens for the next 4 weeks. The work traces the mutual rise of photography and petrochemicals, revealing their hidden interdependence. Through reimagined archival imagery and fossil-fuel-free techniques, Hannah Fletcher challenges the material and environmental foundations of both industries. The exhibition presents a series of new works by Hannah Fletcher that address the intersection between the simultaneous rise of photographic media and the petrochemical industry. Using archival imagery from Shell Photographic Unit, Hannah has produced a series of low-toxicity, full colour analogue images, depicting insects (categorised by Shell as ‘pests’) on plants and crops. Hannah’s works are not reliant on silver, like the original slides from Shell, but instead use iron salts and botanical toners to produce multicolour cyanotypes. These works offer a fossil-fuel free version of colour analogue photography, a medium otherwise inescapable from materials and chemicals derived from the petroleum industry. Install images by Alessandro Schneider @schneiderchronicles 🔥 If you would like to learn this process for yourself, Hannah will be leading a full day workshop on three colour cyanotypes at OmVed on the 30th May. Link in bio for more info and booking 🔗

Join us for our first session of the CVA Public Programme - Summer 2026! Edd Carr and Hannah Fletcher from @sustainabledarkroom will be joining us on June 2 to discuss their image-making practice which bridges photography, film, and experiments with plant chemistries. We will also be screening Edd's newest film, Captain Cook Is Dead with sound by @jack_donnison 🔥 This is a free in person event taking place at Goldsmiths. Please reserve a spot and check out more details on eventbrite - link in bio. Location: Professor Stuart Hall Building - Shireen Abu Akleh Lecture Hall (LG01) Speakers: Edd Carr & Hannah Fletcher Discussant & Moderator: Dr. Alice Cazenave This summer our public programme “Volatile Worlds” is co-sponsored by @goldsmithsanthropology , @cpct_goldsmiths , and @kontekst.collective , whose 2026 Film Festival Entanglements addresses similar themes. The programme is convened by @leefotos & @alice_cazenave_ // @hfletch @_eddcarr_ @visualanthropology_

🍁 Last minute tickets now available for this Saturday's Soil Chromatography workshop with @sustainabledarkroom founder, @hfletch . Located in the beautiful, spring-filled @omvedgardens in North London. Hannah has been working with this technique for the past 10 years. Join her, to discover and reveal the hidden life of soil through this low-toxicty photographic process. You’ll create beautiful, abstract images that reveal the inner composition and vitality of soil. Working with samples gathered from around OmVed Gardens, you’ll learn to "listen to the soil" (following OmVed Gardens 2026 theme) and explore how different soils express themselves through colour, texture, and pattern. This process blends elements of science, ecology, and analogue photography. Using light-sensitive silver nitrate, each print acts like a kind of “portrait” of the soil, offering a unique way to observe and reflect on the ecosystems beneath our feet. Slow and meditative, the workshop invites you to connect more deeply with the living world, and to consider soil not just as ground, but as a complex and active community. 🔗 Info & tickets with the link in @omvedgardens bio

Introducing our May Artist of the Month, Hannah Fletcher 🌿 Hannah @hfletch is a visual artist working with sustainable analogue photography, exploring low-impact, fossil-fuel-free techniques that reveal the hidden relationships between materials, making, and the environment. Join us for two workshops with Hannah this month: Soil Chromatography — Saturday 9 May Discover how soil can be used as a photographic material, visualising the microbial activity and hidden energies present in the earth beneath our feet. Multicolour Cyanotype — Saturday 30 May Learn natural, low-toxicity photographic printing techniques using iron salts and botanical toners to create beautiful full-colour analogue images. Plus, catch her exhibition Photo.Petro.Chemical.Capital in the Barn on 31 May (National Garden Scheme Open Day) and 6–7 June (London Open Gardens) — tracing the intertwined rise of photography and the petrochemical industry through reimagined archival imagery and fossil-fuel-free techniques 🌱📷 Read more via the link in bio 🔗 #omvedgardens #sustainabledarkroom #cyanotype #artexhibition

Chrysanthemum Aphid, 2026 (Image source: archival kodakrome slide from Shell Photographic Unit, 1950s.) Tri-tone Cyanotype toned with avocado skins for magenta layer, on 100% unbleached kozo washi paper made in kyoto. 45 x 61cm Want to learn this process? To co-incide with her exhibition, Hannah will be delivering a full day workshop in the gardens on making Multicolour Cyanotypes. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to build layered, multicolour images using the cyanotype process combined with plant-based toners, a low toxicity alternative to analogue colour printing. By working in stages, you’ll create a series of unique prints, each one revealing subtle variations in tone, depth, and composition. Using botanicals gathered from the garden, we’ll create textured, multi-dimensional images shaped by light, time, and material. You’ll also have the option to work with your own digital negatives to produce more detailed, image-based compositions. No prior experience is needed. The workshop is suitable for those new to cyanotype as well as those looking to expand their practice into colour and more experimental processes.

Chromatograms as site recordings while in-residence. Next month i'll be exhibiting a few of these @omvedgardens I'll also be teaching a workshop in the process. We will work with a variety of soils from across the gardens, allowing the opportunity to consider differences in microbial activity and vitality of each soil. More info and booking following the workshops tab in the link in my bio, or via OmVed's website. 1. Made with freshly exposed earth @hestercombegdns . The gardens had just removed their Richard Long sculpture. It was always intended to be a temporary work and its weight was sinking into the damp earth above the stream. Once the local Morte Slate was removed it revealed rich red earth bellow, so I scooped up a little to make this image. 2. The flower garden @kestle_barton last summer. 3. A mixture of the beds at a secret garden in Hornsey Rise with @kate_goodrich_studio .

Thanks to Helsinki Analog Festival for inviting Sustainable Darkroom / Hannah Fletcher to be this years keynote speaker in their symposium on Artistic Research in Analog Practices. Which took place this weekend! A special thanks to @katrikrohnlassila for organising, and for the invite, as well as too all the other speakers that made it an inspiring 2 days! @finnishdarkroom The symposium brought together international voices exploring how analog image-making — including still and moving images — shapes contemporary artistic practice. In line with the festival’s focus on embodiment, materiality, and ecological responsibility, the symposium highlighted sustainable and ecological darkroom practices and analog processes as forms of resistance to digital acceleration. @hfletch first highlighted research from the Sustainable Darkroom community including research in: - Vegan gelatin by @_eddcarr_ - Jellyfish gelatin by @matthewjbeach , - Self modulated developers, ascorbate as regeneration and Iron as a quasi symbiotic cycle in developers by @curiosolab - Colour forming plant-based developers by @adycousins As well as sharing her own research looking at the intersection between the simultaneous rise of photographic media and the petrochemical industry.

Thank you @sustainabledarkroom ! for an amazing weekend of workshops at our @studiocyan darkroom in Oslo, Norway. Hannah Fletcher - @hfletch and Edd Carr - @_eddcarr_ first stopped by at Oslo Fotokunstskole - @oslofotokunstskole to do a presentation of their work before teaching at the darkroom. And then we got to spend two inspiring days with them mixing household chemicals, learn about waste management and do some creative image making together. Also thank you to the hard working participants at the workshops and we are excited to see more of the photography that follows this from them in the future! #darkroom #cyanmørkerom #oslofotokunstskole #fotosalong #sustainablephotography

Flower Power Photography Symposium Day 2 – March 19th (9am-8pm) 🌸 9:00-9:30: Welcome fika 9:30-12:00: 3 x Artist talks / Presentations with @fialolinneaemelie , @tomzelger , & @annahulth 12:00-13:00: Lunch Break 13:00-17:00: Workshop with @hfletch (tricolour cyanotypes) 18:00-20:00: Closing dinner (open to all workshop participants & speakers) Fia-Lo Doepel: In my artistic practice I co-work with sites, elements and their inherent entities/more-than-humans in connection to thematics regarding the climate crisis, mythology and folk traditions. Ecofeminism, new-animism and posthumanism are the key modes within which I operate and I implement these within the creative process and the noticing processes. It is important for me and the work to have an actual relationship with the sites and its inherent critters and to acknowledge different ecosystems as clusters of living entities with their own agency and that us humans co-world with these beings. Tom Zelger: Tom Zelger is a visual storyteller and artist based in Lund, Sweden. Since 2015 his works have explored the intersections of social politics, environmental questions and visual psychology. Using a research driven practice, he works with digital and analog processes and materials to create critical images that engage with power structures, memory and ecological/social fragility. Anna Hulth: To enable a more tangible and introspective experience, Anna has worked with a process in which she transfers her photographs onto tactile materials, such as textiles. The goal is to explore the relationship between image, material, and emotion, and to investigate how these elements can work together to communicate complex stories. (More info on speakers in the FB event! Link in bio) * All are welcome! See you at the Glashuset next week! :) 🎞️ Ilford HP5 developed with sodium carbonate + vitamin C + plants 🪴

Booking up fast! On 4 tickets remaining to join us for our Scotland Summer School Residency with @forgan_arts_centre Really looking forward to this one 🌿 ⛺ Booking via link in @sustainabledarkroom 's bio. Expect an immersive long weekend programme of campfires, low-toxicity photographic and film-making techniques, situated making, composting chemistries and communal meals.