Lady Clementina Hawarden was a 19th century photographer who made exquisite portraits of her daughters. Despite being celebrated at the time, she was left out of the V&A’s 1939 centennial celebration of photography.

Determined to correct this, her granddaughter donated over 800 of Clementina’s images to the museum. These photographs had been stuck into albums - collected by the family in an informal archive - and on removal they were torn or cut from the pages, with the corners missing.

With this series of chemigrams I’m repurposing my own archive, tearing up photographs and layering them in the darkroom, while I think about the value of women’s labour, and of who gets to be remembered.