Over at the Ground Control gallery, emerging Chinese image-maker Hu Weiyi refuses the apparently distant spectator in The Inner Darkroom, taking negatives showing natural landscapes and dissolving them in his own gastric juices. Displaying some of his images as very large, free-hanging installations, his work is in-your-face and even confrontational, emphatically re-asserting physicality and subjectivity over the disembodied surveying gaze. The 2024 edition included works by Luo Bonian, for example, who was active in the early 20th century; Bonian’s work will be on show in Tate Modern this Autumn, in a long-overdue re-appraisal of Pictorialism exploring its global manifestations. Alam suggests that there’s no one way of looking at things – just as his grandmother, Naseem’s, experiences with Alzheimer’s suggest alternative perceptions and understandings of reality. BJP was impressed with Alam’s work and his book dummy, and interviewed him in the opening week; you can read the article here.