Helen McGhie is a photographic artist and researcher based in Greater Manchester (UK). Her work explores photographic encounters with the unseen. She is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland and is currently working on an arts-based PhD exploring encounters with dark skies at Kielder Observatory, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. www.helenmcghie.com Salford and Sunderland