Murae Van Reede Van Oudtshoorn is a London-based South African fine art photographer working with camera-less photography. She specialises in chemigrams, photograms, cyanotypes, and chemilumens, exploring how materials, light, and chemicals can be manipulated to let images emerge rather than be constructed.
Her work is rooted in personal experience of injury, loss, and disorientation, and reflects on the fragility and fluidity of memory. She is drawn to themes of impermanence and transformation — how things fall apart, blur, or vanish, and the emotional tension between holding on and letting go. Faces and figures often surface partially in her images, like memories on the edge of clarity: never fully fixed, always in flux.
Murae studied Photography at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa before moving to the UK, where she initially worked in advertising. She later returned to her photographic practice, drawn not to technical precision but to the unpredictability of alternative processes.
Through her experimental, camera-less work, Murae creates spaces for quiet reflection, inviting viewers to consider memory, identity, loss, and the beauty and emotion that persist in what remains.