Reading Room

Reading Room is a space for notes, reflections, and shorter observations from Black Lens, Bright Light.

This is where I gather the books, films, adverts, campaigns, images, conversations, and cultural fragments that are shaping my thinking. Some entries may become longer essays. Others may remain as notes, traces, or starting points.

Where the essay archive is more formal, the Reading Room is more open. It is a place for looking, reading, questioning, and following the signs before they settle into argument.

What You’ll Find Here

Reading Notes

Reflections on books, essays, theory, criticism, memoir, fiction, and cultural studies.

Visual Notes

Observations on adverts, beauty campaigns, fashion imagery, photography, film stills, and media images.

Screen Notes

Short responses to film, television, reality media, interviews, and digital culture.

Fragments & Questions

Early thoughts, unfinished questions, and ideas that may later grow into essays.

Latest from the Reading Room

Notes will be added here as the site develops.