Alfie Lofthouse is a London-based artist working with photography. He is currently a Photography MA student at the Royal College of Art but previously studied Fine Art BA at Loughborough University. There his practice was concerned with photography’s technical condition, its reproducibility, its currency and circulation, and its existential connection to the object it pictures. His dissertation developed through close readings of Barthesian semiology, Peirce’s theory of signs, and the phenomenological arguments of philosophers Vilém Flusser and Jacques Derrida an alternative and more pragmatic approach to reading (and taking) photographs, thus an understanding of photographs/technical images more likely to be of benefit when dealing with stochastic images (photographic images that do not relate directly to the object they represent by the movement of actual photons of light but rather exist as statistical renderings). He graduated with first class honours. At the Royal College of Art, Alfie has been exploring the dialectical opposition between artistic translation and transcription in photography. This means questioning the photographic apparatus as a tautological tool and arguing for photography as an art or practice which concentrates on the direct experience of certain details in the image.