Mercy Nelson

Mercy Nelson, AKA Film Fawn, is a photographer and artist inspired by the seemingly mundane moments of life. Driven by how those moments can be transformed through alternative film processes into a magical, surreal, dream induced world. Layering and alternative film processes are at the heart of their practice, from film souping, to cyanotype, to embroidery and watercolor on polaroid emulsion lifts, it’s about exploration and experimentation, It’s about the contrast of controlled process (framing a composition in the viewfinder) against the magic of the uncontrolled (souping film).