A selection of works by artist Bruce Munro, which explore his life-long interrogation of light and how it affects emotion and memory

I have spent many years documenting moments of life in my sketchbooks but also looking at that life through a camera lens. It started for me when in my late teens I swapped my instamatic camera (Kodak 126) for a very basic 35mm manually operated Single Lens Reflex camera. I made the change because it allowed me to learn about the rudiments of photography and primarily because I was captivated by the slide (transparency) medium. In recent years I started exploring the 360-degree photographic facility on my iPhone and the immersive feeling of being in a place that can be achieved. As a child I spent many rainy days sifting through my mother’s collection of slides (transparencies). For me each slide was a Lilliputian stained-glass window of frozen light. The more I looked, the more these unfamiliar images of landscapes and people became familiar to me, each imprinting an essence of my own interpretation and associated feeling onto my young mind. When it came to me taking my own slides, aside from trying to produce technically sound photos, I was more intrigued by their capacity to resonate feelings and experience. Time and Place is a physical visualisation of how we recall and often reinterpret those memories and moments. It is created through a systematic modular process which allows me to explore the basic building blocks that came from the origins of an experience.