Metamorphism is a process of transformation through which temperature and pressure cause profound physical or chemical changes.
This process usually refers to geological changes, but Edinburgh LoFi have chosen this theme for their 2022 exhibition as it seems apt both for the profound changes which have overtaken society in the past couple of years and also to refer to the physical and chemical reactions in traditional and alternative process photography.
Meta, even after social media commodification, is used to refer to that which is beyond - self referential, a thing about a thing - much like the photograph itself.
"According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due TIME allowed! ! !) must assume that state, —none can escape. All records of former worlds must ultimately perish."
John Hershell in a letter to Charles Lyell
p240, The Ninth Bridgewater Treaty, 1838, Charles Babbage ESQ.
Sheila Borthwick Alan Borthwick Ali Millar Elaine Robson Olive Dean Judith Rowan Gregg McNeill Brittonie Fletcher John Sumpter Graeme Pow