Broadening practice
Following the Master of Photography program, I am determined to broaden my analogue photographic practice and am at a complete creative loss. Dom has provided me with exercises that aim to prompt creative focus and direction, leading me to explore lumen printing and zone plate photography. I am also deepening my study of photograms and pinhole photography.
Recent works include a photogram of a vintage threadbare denim jacket (Figures 1–2) and a series of self-portraits captured using a 4x5" large format pinhole camera (Figure 3). Planning to capture lumen prints of the jacket to compare how the colours and tones in the final images correspond with the photograms and researching pinhole cameras, including how to make them, is inspiring.
Figure 1. Untitled photogram, 2022
Figure 2. Untitled photogram (detail), 2022
Although creating artworks from items and events (Figure 3) that are part of my everyday life is engaging, it is also confronting, leading me to reflect on Dom frequently asking, "Yeah, but what do you want to make?" prompting me to reflect on past work and motivations. What do 'I' want to make indeed.
Figure 3. Zo Damage, Tea and falafel (self-portrait), 2022
Keywords
MFA, Studio 1, Photogram, Lumen, Pinhole, Cameraless photography, Film photography
Waste nothing
[TOPIC] I have experienced issues with one of my large format cameras which resulted in approximately a quarter of the negative being exposed (Figure 1).
Figure 1
Although the problem was resolved by reading over the manufacturer manual and disassembling some of the camera parts, I was still left with eight sheets of 4x5 film that held a partial image. As such, I have scanned the negatives and created a polyptych (Figure 2) with the exposed segments from each of the eight negatives.
Figure 2
Fragments
Ballarat Botanical Gardens 2021
4x5LF
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Keywords
4x5, Large format, Ballarat