Maurizio Anzeri's collection was quite interesting. In his work, he stitches into the surface of black and white, found portraits. He adds physical and psychological layers to each of the portraits. What I can see from his work is that he tries to portray another element of the person in the photograph, whether it be a way to mock them, or a way to bring out an attribute that can't easily be seen. For the picture to the left, what I see that he added in the stitching is a monkey, what that means is completely up to interpretation. 
Walead Beshty's abstract photograms were particularly intriguing to me. He creases and rolls photographic paper to create abstract photograms that explore a separation of the physical and image world. Walead Beshty's 4-sided pull was extremely abstract, with 4 different layers of inter-meshing with each other to create a scenic piece. Walead Beshty’s large-scale photo-graphic works are abstract images that tell the story of their own making. Produced by folding and processing light-sensitive photographic paper, the works develop patterns of angles, creases and folds.
Catherine Yass' series Damage was quite interesting as well. She treats her film transparencies according to their subject matter. She drowns, burns and scrapes colour transparencies of urban scenes, taking the subject matter as the inspiration for its destruction. The scenes of waterways are drowned or representations of gas towers are burnt. The way in which she explores her photography is quite different, but it provides a way of exceeding a simple photograph.
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