Featuring new interdisciplinary texts by, and about, 2020 graduates. All have been nominated by their tutors, and represent a broad range of undergraduate degrees and educational programmes from across the North of England.

Commissioned to respond to the new photography presented at the inaugural First Light exhibition (22 May – 4 July 2021, Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, Warrington), these fledgling writers have created short, ambitious texts that destabilise traditional photography criticism: fluctuating in form, style and tone, from theoretical reflection to the magazine-style feature, to poetry to flash fiction.