Mark Stephen Finein

erica lewis’s camera obscura is a stunning meditation on the relationship between things in the world and our perception of them. Beginning with a photograph “that made me think about how time and the constant mutability of everything is . . . the underlying story of all the stories we write,” her words show us – indeed literally see – how “the object exists outside us without our taking part in it”; how “to bring the picture into focus”; how “an image sparks another image” ... —Stephen Ratcliffe