Artist
Statement
The notion of whiteout evokes a primal fear in me, the inability
to see clearly, the fear of the unseen and the unknown.
In my mind I see a monolith looming in the haze, something
emerging in the light like a large ship looming in the fog.
These images are a response to those fears and to the notion
of whiteout.
While my work is usually based on high levels of photographic
clarity and intense detail, these images are the opposite…
hazy, indistinct and foreboding.
Technical notes
While I normally work with large format films and cameras,
these images were made with a camera designed for very young
photographers, an Agfa ‘Clack’ made in the 1960’s,
bought for $1 at a camera fair, many years ago.
It produces 6x9 cm. negatives on 120 roll film, and the
combination of a cheap plastic lens and a large negative
makes it a very interesting camera, and in this case the
use of multiple exposures, (4 clicks on a ‘Clack’!),
are an important part of the image forming process
See current new work in an exhibition called Phantasm www.phantasm.cc |
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