Becky Probert
I’m a Glasgow based Photographic Artist creating work exploring ideas in modern astrophysics and the discoveries made by space-based telescopes and probes. I’m interested in how lenses and technology affect our perceptions of the universe, acting as both a translator and impediment to how we experience the other bodies in our solar system and beyond.
I’m inspired by the photographs of the gas giants and tiny rocky moons taken by the Voyager craft during their Grand Tour of the solar system, and fascinated by the techniques used to discover exoplanets and how astronomers are able to determine their nature and composition through spectroscopy. Studying these distant worlds, it has become clear that the make up of these planetary systems is far more diverse than previously imagined and that our solar system is not the paradigm within our galaxy.
I use my camera to find these new worlds within the ordinary and strange dimensions within common forms, re-imagining the universe and our place within it.
My images are created using both analogue and digital photography techniques, through a combination of astrophotography and the exploration of details and patterns within my immediate environment through a macro lens, reflecting the way that the particles and patterns that make up the universe are echoed between the smallest and largest scales.