Bright Light, Soft Launch brings together emerging and established artists exploring representations of the figure through image making. The artists featured take a poetic and nuanced approach to portrait photography, playfully teasing out characters and personas and presenting their subjects in a kaleidoscope of ways. Some intend to blur and muddle typical perceptions; others mix stereotypes and narratives with nostalgia and tradition, all present a different way of contemplating how the figure can be captured through the lens.