About

Ash Chalk is a research-based documentarian, using photography and text to create multimedia stories to immerse the viewer in fresh perspectives. They focus on small details that when placed in sequence, zoom out to articulate a bigger picture and suggest different ways of living.

Listening closely, Ash creates a space that allows for experiences to come out. She is invested in being rooted within and working with communities. Throughout her work, there are recurring themes of complex identities, queer lineage, wilderness and fluidity. With a background in producing digital content for charities, Ash maintains a balance of the practical with the conceptual. She leans on diverse research methods to back up theory. Research methods include archival records, historical data, interviews and verbal case studies, ensuring accounts from different decades are included.

In working to understand the world, Ash invites viewers to see themselves in her work, while also striving to represent participants authentically and without strategy. Motivated by being seen and heard herself, Ash digs deep with herself and collaborators, to share multimedia narratives that will mean her world and how it’s navigated, is understood a little bit better.