Susan Derges (born 1955, London) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and later at Tsukuba University in Japan. She now teaches Photography as a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth. Her work has been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions including Victoria & Albert Museum. Collections holding her work include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; Getty Center, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Victoria & Albert Museum. She is perhaps best known for her pioneering technique of capturing the continuous movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly into rivers or shorelines. Often creating work at night, she works with the light of the moon and a hand-held torch to expose images directly onto light sensitive paper.