BRIDGE WITHOUT

Exhibition: Borough Road gallery, London July 14-19 2025

SIMULATED LIGHT

Greg Lock

Simulated Light explores how digital illumination transforms the perception of reconstructed environments. Anchored in fieldwork conducted in Kenya, the Arctic Circle, and the UK, this project presents experimental images generated through photography, photogrammetry, and 2D digital editing to activate perceptual attention, disclosing spatial structures through controlled intervention.

The work responds to the curatorial theme of “investigation” by treating light itself as a methodological agent: computational, situated, and perceptually generative. The virtual landscape becomes a field of engagement—where the act of lighting becomes a way of seeing. Simulated Light also engages questions of material translation: how digital forms retain traces of the physical, and how light—real or simulated—mediates our understanding of both.

DEFOGGING

Greg Lock

Defogging explores the threshold of perception when vision fails. Anchored in fieldwork conducted in the glacial fog of Svalbard, this diptych from my Defogging series presents two versions of the same scene: the original photograph as it was captured in-camera—visually indistinct, nearly blank—and its defogged counterpart, rendered through post-visual digital processing of RAW sensor data. This digital mediation exposes structures that were sensed, but not visible at the time of capture.

The work responds to the curatorial theme of “investigation” by treating perception itself as a methodological terrain: active, embodied, and extended through technological mediation. Fog serves as a Ganzfeld field of potential; the photograph is not a record, but a site of speculation. Defogging also touches on broader questions of surveillance: what do our sensing technologies see that we do not? What remains latent in data, hidden to everyone except those with the right diagnostic tools?