BLEACHED
BY CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD
The short film aims to stimulate engagement with the global environmental issue of coral and anemone bleaching. Charlotte created the film by placing coated prints of photographs that she captured during visits to L’Aquarium de Barcelona and Bristol Zoo Aquarium in a container filled with bleach. This chemical slowly stripped the prints of their colour, much like increasing ocean temperatures due to climate change strips corals of their colour by pushing them to expel the symbiotic algae living in their tissues. Without this algae, corals can die from starvation or become too weak to fight off harmful bacteria.
ABOUT CHARLOTTE
Charlotte Greenwood is an environmentally conscious experimental photographer from London, specialising in both analogue and digital mediums. With a First-Class Honours degree in Illustration and Visual Media from the University of the Arts London, her passion for cameraless photography was ignited during an internship at The School of Light in Los Angeles, mentored by photographer Andrew Hall. Inspired by organic form, texture, and abstraction, Charlotte explores the unpredictable aspects of nature, seeking beauty in destruction and revealing hidden details. Each of her pieces is a process of trial and error, embracing serendipitous moments and learning from mistakes. Since #CreateCOP26, she has focused on two ongoing projects, ‘Cliché-Verres in Colour’ and ‘Crystalotypes,’ which use handmade negatives to create abstract images deeply rooted in environmentalism and the inherent unpredictability of nature.