2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

A Faceted Unknown

Justine Roche

A Faceted Unknown, 2025 wet plate collodion on glass 29.5 x 4.5 x 24 cm

'A Faceted Unknown' commemorates the psyche of wetlands as protectors of the earth in a climate-challenged era. The three-panelled glasswork alludes to the nuanced perceptions of these transitory lands and explores the space between the material and the indefinable. Shifting light transforms the reception of the work as the imagery wavers between clarity and uncertainty. Blue glass is used as a reference to blue carbon, a term for the effective storage of carbon in coastal wetlands.