Since the 1980s, Mike and Doug Starn’s conceptual approach to photography and use of unorthodox techniques have challenged ideas of what constitutes a photograph. The identical twin brothers came to international attention through their inclusion in the 1987 Whitney Biennial in New York. In their signature manipulation of material and form, the Starns apply innovative printing techniques and a vast array of media including transparency film, plexiglass, layered fused glass panels, gilded coloured carbon prints, scotch tape, wax and pushpins to create intense metaphorical landscapes. With the theme of light as a central component of their work, the brothers explore the physical and philosophical interconnections between subjects such as leaves, trees, snowflakes, and religious icons, with human memory, perception and thought. Working collaboratively in photography since the age of thirteen, their innovative techniques, and unique combination of sculpture, painting, and video, have defied categorisation, and earned them a position of eminence within the history of art.