NO COMPUTER brings together artists working entirely by hand, from film exposure through to final darkroom print. At a time when most photographs exist primarily as files — editable, reproducible, and consumed at speed — these works ask what changes when a photograph is physically made.

Importantly, this is not simply a distinction between film and digital photography. Today, even most photographers shooting on film still scan, edit, and print their work digitally, making the process a hybrid of analogue and digital methods. The artists in this exhibition take a different approach, carrying the image through every stage manually, without screens or digital intervention.

Working this way means accepting limitation: fewer opportunities to endlessly optimise or revise an image after the fact, and a greater reliance on judgement at the moment of making. Exposure, timing, chemistry, paper -  each decision carries more weight because it cannot be infinitely corrected later.

This exhibition is not a rejection of digital photography, nor an argument for nostalgia or purity. Digital technology has radically expanded photography’s possibilities and accessibility. But alongside that shift, there has also been a renewed interest in traditional photographic processes as living practices that continue to shape how artists think, work, and connect with their materials.

What connects the artists in NO COMPUTER is a commitment to physical process and material engagement. The result is work that invites viewers to consider not just the image itself, but the decisions, labour, and time embedded within it.