Cats and Ladders

Title - 'Absorption'

Title - 'Infinite Bear.'

In this exhibition, I have created a series of images that explore superstitious beliefs about the soul being captured in portrait photography. I'm interested in the physicality of the light that has left the sitters body, which it is actually rendered in the emulsion of the image, if this holds traces of the person’s soul or not is perhaps superstitious or practical magic and is open to interpretation. Yet it is true that this photographic negative holds a direct connection to the light that touched the skin of the person you can see. In this seriesI have combined a number of black and white darkroom techniques that create a hand made, collaged effect that furthers the ‘one off ’ quality of these images, bending the images between positive negative, photograph and photogram. To create these images I hand made a pin hole camera from a 4m long x 2m high light proof tent.