Beatrice Thornton is an Oakland-based artist, archivist, and art and design historian working in black and white film photography. Since returning to her home state from New York in 2018, she has been building an art practice centered around sustainable analog photographic processes. Beatrice develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes using foraged plants, rainwater, and low toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemicals. Her evolving photographic style mainly depicts her local landscape, often through in-camera double exposures. In her work she aims to create dialogues between her imagery and the materials she chooses for developers.