Chrystal Cherniwchan is a Canadian artist living in Manchester, UK, and teaches photography at the University of Salford. She graduated with a BFA in Photography from the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Canada, and an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking from the University of Western England (UWE), in Bristol, UK, where she received the Agassi Book Arts Prize for her degree show installation ‘mishappenings’. Recent highlights include sound and print projects ‘Non Mountain’ and ‘grass folded and pressed’, exhibiting in a group show ‘Incarnations: When Photography Takes Shape’ at the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, and featuring in the French publication Fisheye Photo Review Vol.2.

She uses photography, video, field recordings, and text, in her practice, and considers her projects to be speculative within the field of expanded documentary image/sound making. She tests and experiments with digital and analogue recordings to see how malleable and stretchy they can be, and whether hybrid forms are possible. Her projects often involve working together with landscape, a combination of documentation as well as creating speculative narratives that are found within layers of history embedded within a site. Underpinning all of her work is an interest in complex systems and entanglements with technology and more than human ecologies and how they might feature in her work. Outputs are often installations, limited edition book and sound works.