Alexander Lethbridge carried out a virtual talk in which she discussed her career in the photographic industry.
In her first years after university, Lethbridge was involved in many job roles including studio assisting for Joel Meyerowitz, studio manager for Venetia Dearden and volunteer at Photoworks until she finally landed a full time job at Photoworks whom she still works for today.
Lethbridge’s photographical work is very experimental and is open to different methods. It includes a mixture of found imagery, archives and also her own photographs. Having an interest in lay lines of the earth’s plates, Lethbridge started looking into what areas looked like via Google Earth. From this passion, she created ‘The Meteorite Hunter.’
This project is a collection of both Lethbridge’s own photographs as well as photographs from NASA. The work is based on mimicking the job of a Meteorite Hunter bringing in fact and fiction. Mixing the two together, her work contains bright, experimental images which are eye catching. They make you question what, where, how and why which I think is really important as it intrigues the viewer into the work.
Following on from this, her book contains different paper stocks to help give the viewer a different experience when reading through it. As the subject matter is very obscure, this construct fits in well with the feel of the book. Also when exhibiting her work, Lethbridge continues with the experience of the book and presents her work in ways you have to ‘hunt.’ They can be placed in a collage format which sits very different to a traditional exhibition.
