Laura Dutton (she/her) is a photo/video-based artist working and living in Victoria, BC on the unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. She is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria and received an MFA from the University of Victoria in 2011 and a BFA from Concordia University, Montréal in 2006. Dutton works with photography and video installation to unravel the materiality of lens-based images and disrupt our ability to look straight through to the referent described. By obscuring, degrading or removing the subject matter altogether, her images reveal their own process and become distilled suggestions of what once stood before the lens, offering an epistemological space for the viewer to meditate on the act of seeing and knowing.