Little girls lost

In Tom Chambers's photographs those old adversaries, nature and artifice, are engaged in a tussle for supremacy. For instance, a woman in a fancy prom dress finds herself lost in the wilderness, slightly bedraggled and conspicuously out of place. It's her sudden vulnerability that Chambers is getting at, as her man-made trappings are rendered ridiculous and superficial by her surroundings. Indeed, Chambers seems to be firmly fighting nature's corner, except his method puts that proverbial spanner in the works: these eerie and surreal images are anything but natural - they are entirely fabricated digital montages depicting scenes that simply don't exist in the real world. And so, unendingly, the aesthetic tussle goes on.
Holly Kyte