Claire-louise Pitman is a disabled, eco-conscious photographer whose work explores themes of health, disability, and discrimination with honesty and compassion. Using camera-less techniques like scannography, cyanotypes, photograms, and chlorophyll printing, she creates tactile images that blend science and art.

Dedicated to sustainability, Claire-louise avoids buying new materials, instead choosing second-hand materials from scrap stores and charity shops. Accessibility is central to her practice—she incorporates audio, pronounced texture, colour contrast, and braille labels to ensure her work is inclusive therefore engaging for all.Her work is deeply personal, shaped by her own experiences with disability and identity. Her unique pieces has been exhibited in the UK, Romania, and New York.

Collections of work

fern leaf amongst the northern lights

  • Fronteer Gallery were looking for work for their winter lights exhibition. Light plays a major role in festivals and rituals, from modern use of electric fairy lights, and the role of light in traditional winter rituals, to natural lights such as the Northern lights. An eco bag, a fern leaf and my glasses case were used with the technique scannography to create this image.

  • I made my own developer using coriander and collected the shrubs from around my home only taking what I needed. I use litter boxes for development trays and hair flat hair clips as tongs.

  • This project was on identity, I have done a few projects on myself but never my scar. The time felt right and it was a great opportunity to get answers to my questions. How long is it ? What texture is it ? As cringy as it sounds I wanted to build a relationship with my scar.

  • I collect souvenirs that are then gathered into my memory boxes, these item take me back to the place just like a photographs do. Because I can't smell each individual item takes me straight back there more textually than visually just like your sense of smell does.

  • This is a short project on my imagination of outer space based on what I think it appears like and what we grew up seeing in children’s books. I used an alternative photography process called cyanotype with kitchen cupboard items.

  • When it was summer 2020 I decided to make my first chlorophyll prints which uses natural sun light. In such a strange time I needed something to keep me occupied with the use of a process that is on the cheap side to make. I have yet to crack the use of hosta leafs which is why i have planted one in the garden.