Bruce Dunbar is an artist whose practice centers on the material and atmospheric possibilities of lens-based processes. Working with traditional and alternative photographic techniques—including gelatin silver, lumen, hand-colored prints, and cyanolumen processes—Dunbar cultivates images that emerge through an intricate dialogue between light, chemistry, and time. His work is defined by its quiet intensity: forms appear suspended, partially dissolved, or gently illuminated, as if the natural world were revealing itself in moments of fragile transition. Dunbar’s approach is rooted in deliberate observation and an embrace of the unknown. Rather than exerting full control, he creates conditions in which light can act autonomously, allowing each print to develop its own internal logic. The resulting images often hover between representation and abstraction, holding a meditative stillness that invites prolonged looking. Subtle tonal shifts, atmospheric gradients, and ghostly silhouettes speak to his ongoing interest in impermanence, memory, and the unseen forces that shape organic life. Across his body of work, Dunbar engages photography as a tactile, almost sculptural medium—one in which process becomes inseparable from meaning. Whether working with plants, landscape fragments, or abstract atmospheric fields, he treats each image as a collaboration with natural phenomena. His prints exist as records of fleeting interactions: light touching paper, color migrating across an emulsion, time pressing itself into the surface. Dunbar’s work reflects a sustained commitment to exploring the poetics of light. Through restrained gesture and material sensitivity, he creates images that feel simultaneously grounded and otherworldly—meditations on presence, transformation, and the quiet drama embedded in the natural world.