Join us on Tuesday, 2 June at 5:30pm UK-time for this fascinating talk on Rebecca’s practice of rephotography. Tickets are on sale now in our shop for £15.

This talk introduces Rebecca Howard’s practice‑research, which uses photography as a way of thinking about space, materials, and the built environment. Rather than treating photographs as finished records, the work often begins by returning to images: rephotographing them, and working back into them, as a way of generating new forms, shapes, and spatial possibilities. Early projects explore trompe l’œil, illusion, and model‑making, using photography to examine how images intersect with and reshape the built environment. The talk will then move through more recent work, including projects focused on marble, a material closely tied to ideas of copying and reproduction, thinking about the ways photography transforms materials.

Another body of work explores silence as something constructed through church architecture, using photographic noise to interrupt and unsettle it, treating noise as productive rather than as a flaw. Across these projects, rephotography operates as a recurring method: an act of photographing again, combined with tactile processes such as folding, cutting, and stitching images. Folding, in particular, functions as a generative practice, allowing images to be physically and conceptually reworked, rather than resolved. More recent work also experiments with AI voice and text‑based instructions as prompts for image‑making, treating language itself as a material that can be repeated, translated, and folded into photographic form.