The ‘Transparencies’ are a series of solarised silver gelatin, camera-less photograms of obscured or textured glass. The idea was formed through a realisation that the ‘Opacities’ series that i was working on at the time were actually negatives. Negatives of the image of light as it fractured and refracted through these sheets of glass. The glass acted as a compound lens and where the light was refracted onto the light sensitive paper the dark mark was made. I was interested to see what a true positive of light would look like, where light created an image of light. I tried in many different ways to invert the images within the darkroom. I landed on solarisation, a technique where the photographic paper is flashed/ re-exposed to light mid way through development creating a strange silvery positive image.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed.
Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram.