Murae Van Reede Van Oudtshoorn is a London-based South African fine art photographer specialising in camera-less photography. She received a BA Hons in Photography from the Durban University of Technology, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

She moved to the UK in 2001, leaving photography behind to pursue a career in advertising. Years later, a close friend encouraged her to reconnect with her passion, helping her experiment with alternative processes such as manipulating and destroying polaroids.

After a severe accident in 2020 that left her house-bound, Murae returned to South Africa to recuperate. Stuck at home recovering during ongoing COVID lockdowns, she spent her time experimenting with chemigrams, using expired photographic paper and applying common household ingredients that act as resists, she embarked on an adventure in alternative print making.

From there she moved to experimenting further with both materials and process, creating photograms, chemigrams and chemilumens through transformational processes using photographic paper, light and chemicals. She is particularly fascinated by the unpredictable transmutation that occurs in the chemigram process, and how light, chemistry and various localising products interact with photographic paper.

Her work was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London in 2019.

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Fine Art Photographer specialising in Alternative Photographic Processes such as Photograms, Lumens, Chemilumens & Cyanotypes, with a keen interest in the Chemigram process.