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This photogram of a small glass fruit bowl fprmed the basis of an animated GIF in which the tonal areas become colours that pulsed and changed like patterns in a kalaidoscope.
Photogram using simple mundane objects.
I edited the image in a digital way to give a stronger, brighter colour.
photograms were studied in a day.
Photogramm
Photopapier in Toilettenpapierrolle
Orwo-Fotopapier,
Belichtet mit Leuchtstoffröhre.
Das Bild zeigt den Schatten durch die Rolle bzw. die beleuchtete Fläche.
Invertiert
Cameraless photography has always intrigued me. What is photography without a camera? A question I had been asking myself through the entirety of creating this piece. In this experimentation I was exploring how I could create an image that was abstract and surreal enough for people to question the underlying issues. My purpose for creating this was to express my own personal angst against my childhood home. As a child I would dread coming home because I believe the house was haunted. I genuinely thought there was a presence in my home that I could not see, nor hear however would be constantly reminded at night, particularly when I my eye lids too heavy to open and I was on the tipping point of falling asleep, I would hear the floorboards next to my bed creek slightly and the faint breathing of someone-or something directly above my head. My room was constantly cold because the radiator in my room had been broken for years, no one bothered to fix it. Hence why I used only black and white in this image. The harsh light from the white represents the freezing cold I would feel through the black background of my eyelids. Whether there was a presence here or not, this image brings me back to those cold nights, alone, but not quite alone. Even the process of creating this piece chilled me to the bone. I created this in a Dark room, with only red lights to help me work through it. Any of source of light would spoil the paper, as it is photogram paper. I took an image of my old house and cut it up, printed it on acetate plastic sheet and then layer the acetate onto the light sensitive paper and then exposed for 4 seconds. By exposing light on the layer acetate and paper, it created a deeply contrasting image that gave a haunting impression. I then had to place the paper in the photogram for the image to appear from the paper for 2 minutes, then the stop chemical for 2 minutes, after I placed it into the fixative chemical for another 3 minutes and finally washing the paper with plain water to rinse the chemicals from the paper. One dried, I slit the photograms apart as if killing the memory itself and finally composing the split pieces of photogram back together again to produce this final college.
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I accidently stumbled on how to make contact sheets while in the dark room. I feel like this was my best exposire too - ran a test strip right before I made this photogram.
The negatives are from Brighton, UK; Little Washington, NC & Greenville, NC.
I like this too - although it really is nothing more than a contact sheet w/ some sprockets.
Photogram/chemogram created in the dark room. A sheet of acetate with the text was placed onto photo sensitive paper in the dark room and exposed for four seconds. This was then developed by plashing the developing fluid onto the paper before completing the process with the stop bath and fixer.
I also only made one photogram. I don't love this image. I think that the patterns and texture are neat with the tights, but you cant see the beads at all. Also, the negative image is really fuzzy. I like the different white and gray tones. I wouldn't say that this is portfolio worthy.