Cailyn Forrest lives and works on unceded Gadigal land and is a Doctoral candidate in her final year at the National Art School, Sydney. Her research and practice focus on analogue and alternative photographic processes. She examines these traditions through a feminist lens to explore the relationship between her body and the material labour of image production. She looks to the darkroom as a site of introspection and performativity and the image as a trace of this performance.