Therese Kirchner is a neurodivergent, experimental analog photographer working with black-and-white and colour film. Her practice focuses on alternative photographic processes, including film soup, mordançage, and emulsion manipulation. Through these methods, she introduces material instability and chemical stress, allowing chance and process to reshape the photographic surface. Her work explores memory, impermanence, aging, and the instability of time and perception, often shaped by her lived experience of ADHD. She approaches photography as a physical, mutable object rather than a fixed representation, emphasizing erosion, discoloration, and partial loss as integral to the image-making process. She lives and works in the Ottawa area, on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation. Her photographs have been exhibited at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO), Urban Art Collective, and published in PhotoED magazine.
Therese is a 2026 graduate of the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO)
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