https://benstezaker.com Benjamin Stezaker Art Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:29:56 +0000 https://benstezaker.com en https://benstezaker.com/Transparencies-2025 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:29:56 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Transparencies-2025 Transparencies (2025) 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.&nbsp; <img width="2854" height="3401" width_o="2854" height_o="3401" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16020d6bd3fb3e78526195fc6e6813826a6c84d3d1bd7f739fd03c4533936f3c/Transparencies-2.jpg" data-mid="246504043" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16020d6bd3fb3e78526195fc6e6813826a6c84d3d1bd7f739fd03c4533936f3c/Transparencies-2.jpg" /> Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram. <img width="2397" height="2996" width_o="2397" height_o="2996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/880978711f718e34cf991458116c176b7c6f74300ebb0f0f24e80604d665837e/project78Install-9.jpg" data-mid="246504046" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/880978711f718e34cf991458116c176b7c6f74300ebb0f0f24e80604d665837e/project78Install-9.jpg" /> Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed. <img width="1523" height="3394" width_o="1523" height_o="3394" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62d1d13cca6a50bdd8027d657b7850d17d074978df27879077f764e8e6d414c2/Transparencies-3.jpg" data-mid="246504049" border="0" data-scale="36" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62d1d13cca6a50bdd8027d657b7850d17d074978df27879077f764e8e6d414c2/Transparencies-3.jpg" /> Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram. <img width="2410" height="3012" width_o="2410" height_o="3012" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eefdba86c8494f82cf8baa81d25be7a74d41698faef6b3f592341e8782d7ca4/project78Install-10.jpg" data-mid="246504069" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7eefdba86c8494f82cf8baa81d25be7a74d41698faef6b3f592341e8782d7ca4/project78Install-10.jpg" />Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed.&nbsp; <img width="2795" height="3301" width_o="2795" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b4ca6710e64ffa0870fbfd69080ee3c27d9d202fa53ede159e9328c4985cfbd/Transparencies-7.jpg" data-mid="246504140" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b4ca6710e64ffa0870fbfd69080ee3c27d9d202fa53ede159e9328c4985cfbd/Transparencies-7.jpg" />Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram. <img width="2642" height="3303" width_o="2642" height_o="3303" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bfbbbfd702021410d56e9dd1a7f3a50786fffc08bc5dbc225bfc77ed146b011/project78Install-11.jpg" data-mid="246504192" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bfbbbfd702021410d56e9dd1a7f3a50786fffc08bc5dbc225bfc77ed146b011/project78Install-11.jpg" />Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed. <img width="4331" height="5169" width_o="4331" height_o="5169" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3c0c35cfae21c3707ccba6aa1e94574d9b0c05f6f85bdc7b80c34e7df43021f/OpacityWEB29.jpg" data-mid="246504248" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3c0c35cfae21c3707ccba6aa1e94574d9b0c05f6f85bdc7b80c34e7df43021f/OpacityWEB29.jpg" />Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram. <img width="2884" height="3605" width_o="2884" height_o="3605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddc8efbf6aba9daad5512978e9a9a93eac7b86ac7d41dceeb8c8309050a61ce3/project78Install-12.jpg" data-mid="246504249" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ddc8efbf6aba9daad5512978e9a9a93eac7b86ac7d41dceeb8c8309050a61ce3/project78Install-12.jpg" />Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. Framed. <img width="2896" height="3440" width_o="2896" height_o="3440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79aedc4e6b36b3c0e70c0f9a99d9ebbc5bd3b10a3c1c8f174eb3f3c45b782ef7/Transparencies-10.jpg" data-mid="246504194" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79aedc4e6b36b3c0e70c0f9a99d9ebbc5bd3b10a3c1c8f174eb3f3c45b782ef7/Transparencies-10.jpg" /> Transparency (2025) 10.16cm x 12.7cm solarised silver gelatine photogram. https://benstezaker.com/Long-Exposures-2025 Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:18:17 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Long-Exposures-2025 Long Exposures (2025) The ‘Long Exposures’ are a series of found sun-faded, cloth-covered hardback books collected over the last year, in which the ghost images of adjacent books or book ends have left their imprint as silhouettes. As the books are arranged and rearranged on bookshelves over years, a series of multiple exposures to ambient light create geometric collages of superimposed images of what has been. In a way, these are unintentional ready-made photographs which have been developed (without the human hand) over decades of sunlight exposure. Unlike most photographic processes where light creates darkness on sensitised paper, the light is removing the colour/ pigment and leaving an image of what was once present: light creating an image of light. One piece in the series stands alone. Rather than being an image of a series of other books and objects, it is an image made through the dust cover of the book itself. The dust cover has acted as an intermediary negative and over time an inversion of the cover photograph has been imprinted onto the book cloth in negative. Through conversation on the project with Fraser Carr Miles at Bracken Books, I was introduced to a particular discontinued coloured card stock used for book covers. Fraser had had problems with it fading extremely quickly to short term light exposure. This gave me the idea of producing an image in the same manner and then allowing it to disappear with time. I had taken a series of images of ‘Passages’ and apertures at The Crypt gallery during a residency there. This was because some of the ‘Long Exposure’ shadow imprints I had collected reminded me of doors and windows. I thought it would be interesting to use these as acetate positives to exposure onto this card. I left them outside in the Farm Mews for the two-week duration of the residency. My plan is to then do an exhibition that will stage their disappearance. <img width="4864" height="3648" width_o="4864" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f7bf8a1bd3bfbce69956bcd1d5364797730da20b9629dcfd5d416d5b7770a6e/LongExposure1.jpg" data-mid="236130618" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f7bf8a1bd3bfbce69956bcd1d5364797730da20b9629dcfd5d416d5b7770a6e/LongExposure1.jpg" /> Long Exposure (2025) x cm Framed sun faded book <img width="4797" height="3572" width_o="4797" height_o="3572" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/208f63f07faef137d8ea0d6e575aef0e8c3e479fbeb721e5d9768018576b1582/LongExposure2.jpg" data-mid="236130635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/208f63f07faef137d8ea0d6e575aef0e8c3e479fbeb721e5d9768018576b1582/LongExposure2.jpg" />Long Exposure (2025) x cm Framed sun faded book <img width="4864" height="3648" width_o="4864" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50c8a84e022c61bdf6b7f2c7cb0b337fbafc8d9941eacac8d43a77b80a46a2b5/LongExposure3.jpg" data-mid="236130640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50c8a84e022c61bdf6b7f2c7cb0b337fbafc8d9941eacac8d43a77b80a46a2b5/LongExposure3.jpg" />Long Exposure (2025) x cm Framed sun faded book <img width="4498" height="3374" width_o="4498" height_o="3374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8abc3cae791c1d59fd58df77ca214d0f4e6c77aec817cf2708c894e9947431d/LongExposure4.jpg" data-mid="236130641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8abc3cae791c1d59fd58df77ca214d0f4e6c77aec817cf2708c894e9947431d/LongExposure4.jpg" />Long Exposure (2025) x cm Framed sun faded book <img width="4864" height="3648" width_o="4864" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3281fa415e7157d76979d4c89c7403bfff2a0e9a2a0b18cd3faca6cd26e4c1c/LongExposure5.jpg" data-mid="236130642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3281fa415e7157d76979d4c89c7403bfff2a0e9a2a0b18cd3faca6cd26e4c1c/LongExposure5.jpg" />Long Exposure (2025) x cm Framed sun faded book Fresh Salad X The farm solo show install. <img width="4679" height="3509" width_o="4679" height_o="3509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19ee03ef395c1c1a0b508f2367752034d10a05899b3f1e2ddf7cb2844962df83/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-6-copy.jpg" data-mid="236131019" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19ee03ef395c1c1a0b508f2367752034d10a05899b3f1e2ddf7cb2844962df83/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-6-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4864" height="3648" width_o="4864" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be323ca20d5b709b8509ad9884764a044c3431eed03f1b8e77eb6e54417b42cd/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-12-copy.jpg" data-mid="236131020" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be323ca20d5b709b8509ad9884764a044c3431eed03f1b8e77eb6e54417b42cd/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-12-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4864" height="3648" width_o="4864" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6d31d9793ac7d172e7cd8853b6cef6aae2ae896509dc7c26c65a3f3c9494585/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-17.jpg" data-mid="236131023" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6d31d9793ac7d172e7cd8853b6cef6aae2ae896509dc7c26c65a3f3c9494585/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-17.jpg" /> <img width="4864" height="3648" width_o="4864" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0691fa82f4e077d9add1db7a2c8f370b863f4c187b33fd9749fa390ac884f430/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-1-copy.jpg" data-mid="236131060" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0691fa82f4e077d9add1db7a2c8f370b863f4c187b33fd9749fa390ac884f430/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-1-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4864" height="3648" width_o="4864" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77721b5dbe704ed858b3454d323683a5ce04418073dc3b4c50e57a1e51191893/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-13-copy.jpg" data-mid="236131021" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77721b5dbe704ed858b3454d323683a5ce04418073dc3b4c50e57a1e51191893/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-13-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3648" height="4864" width_o="3648" height_o="4864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e69ba43f9f13b5ad85e4be8cf8226dfefd6c272e4f890ccfe21d830fc7bbedc2/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-11.jpg" data-mid="236130648" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e69ba43f9f13b5ad85e4be8cf8226dfefd6c272e4f890ccfe21d830fc7bbedc2/FS-X-TF-INSTALL-11.jpg" /> https://benstezaker.com/Opacities-2023-Present Tue, 30 May 2023 17:16:07 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Opacities-2023-Present Opacities&nbsp;(2023- Present) "Talbot was not taking a picture through the window of the world outside as Niepce, Daguerre and many others did. Instead, Talbot chooses to look at the window itself. He tells us that photography is about framing and then shows us nothing but that frame. He suggests that photography offers a window onto the world but chose nothing but that window." (Batchen, 2001: 10) The ‘Opacities’ are photograms of what is often called obscured glass, the kind of glass one finds in private parts of domestic homes.&nbsp; The sheets of glass act as compound lenses, fracturing and refracting the light to specific focal points directly onto light sensitive paper. The resultant images reveal, as one would expect, something of the hidden structure of glass and its peculiarity as neither a liquid nor a solid. But what couldn’t be anticipated was the strange, uncanny space created in this hybrid world of geometric, crystal structure and fluid, organic form. In the process of making the photograms a single millimeter movement of the glass from the photographic paper can dissolve crystal formations into visceral, organic shapes. The series celebrates an intimate and indexical connection between these two most dominant media of transparency in our culture – glass and photography. In this hidden and opaque space are generated ambiguous configurations which are both abstract matrices and photographic images. This ambiguity of the image seems to free the viewer from the ties that these different image expectations make, allowing the viewer a freedom for imaginary projection. The images of glass seem to reveal something of that exact same ambiguity in the photographic image, their simultaneous crystalline fixity and organic fluidity, as one medium of transparency creates an image of itself in another medium of transparency. <img width="4288" height="5425" width_o="4288" height_o="5425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5785c3689eb3cca783711a966b469f183f30c0dab36cb8d1f724493a4e133e30/OpacityWEB10.jpg" data-mid="228861052" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5785c3689eb3cca783711a966b469f183f30c0dab36cb8d1f724493a4e133e30/OpacityWEB10.jpg" /> Opacity (2023) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4365" height="5468" width_o="4365" height_o="5468" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6894315116b7b5ff81ee9a3245422f67c25d4a58a30b9cc4eb61888c471d4f26/OpacityWEB3.jpg" data-mid="228861045" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6894315116b7b5ff81ee9a3245422f67c25d4a58a30b9cc4eb61888c471d4f26/OpacityWEB3.jpg" />Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4348" height="5490" width_o="4348" height_o="5490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/921bb696e28b499287b398472d011d64724c2f2a5724e289c9bbf130a4ff314f/OpacityWEB7.jpg" data-mid="228861049" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/921bb696e28b499287b398472d011d64724c2f2a5724e289c9bbf130a4ff314f/OpacityWEB7.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4352" height="5458" width_o="4352" height_o="5458" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29e36ffa8db0ebbcb7e259f649e46e74ddc4199398cd0356d58526de13458b24/OpacityWEB5.jpg" data-mid="228861047" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29e36ffa8db0ebbcb7e259f649e46e74ddc4199398cd0356d58526de13458b24/OpacityWEB5.jpg" />Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4225" height="5341" width_o="4225" height_o="5341" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d914b0042aea1325ea1203464a68e88ce92109dc305ec832322e228aba15a54/OpacityWEB18.jpg" data-mid="228861059" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d914b0042aea1325ea1203464a68e88ce92109dc305ec832322e228aba15a54/OpacityWEB18.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4385" height="5480" width_o="4385" height_o="5480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bebc638a384fdfb0b6568bfe5a14c96468925f91e7f678e05fcfa3dae5df13c/OpacityWEB2.jpg" data-mid="228861044" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bebc638a384fdfb0b6568bfe5a14c96468925f91e7f678e05fcfa3dae5df13c/OpacityWEB2.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine&nbsp;photogram. <img width="4326" height="5471" width_o="4326" height_o="5471" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df1f6a56d8cadaddb8a6dcce44d4c178873db13aac985ed05c08165f1b5e7e41/OpacityWEB8.jpg" data-mid="228861050" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df1f6a56d8cadaddb8a6dcce44d4c178873db13aac985ed05c08165f1b5e7e41/OpacityWEB8.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine&nbsp;photogram. <img width="4317" height="5441" width_o="4317" height_o="5441" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/596445e42f47351e460255e9f657dc738898e94e4c6225cb896563dbaf3d9aff/OpacityWEB6.jpg" data-mid="228861048" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/596445e42f47351e460255e9f657dc738898e94e4c6225cb896563dbaf3d9aff/OpacityWEB6.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine&nbsp;photogram. <img width="4221" height="5359" width_o="4221" height_o="5359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45b3a30694d6290091f555968f709706e49f01a88a714510e774f48cc2d25aa2/OpacityWEB15.jpg" data-mid="228861056" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45b3a30694d6290091f555968f709706e49f01a88a714510e774f48cc2d25aa2/OpacityWEB15.jpg" />Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine&nbsp;photogram. <img width="4381" height="5516" width_o="4381" height_o="5516" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49a47c92455122439f18fc8141ca62fd69043a0337540c370d86b54b1d228ef3/OpacityWEB4.jpg" data-mid="228861046" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49a47c92455122439f18fc8141ca62fd69043a0337540c370d86b54b1d228ef3/OpacityWEB4.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine&nbsp;photogram. <img width="4212" height="5343" width_o="4212" height_o="5343" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1430aac0599b14e8bbcade81b3bf854b88525b0495fc340e04c729faca1fff1f/OpacityWEB11.jpg" data-mid="228861053" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1430aac0599b14e8bbcade81b3bf854b88525b0495fc340e04c729faca1fff1f/OpacityWEB11.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine&nbsp;photogram. <img width="4245" height="5418" width_o="4245" height_o="5418" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/905fcecacebdedd524286c3f69a5b3df89d0250a2d9a860ea052c8ee6698817a/OpacityWEB16.jpg" data-mid="228861057" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/905fcecacebdedd524286c3f69a5b3df89d0250a2d9a860ea052c8ee6698817a/OpacityWEB16.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine&nbsp;photogram. <img width="4211" height="5347" width_o="4211" height_o="5347" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2adc2f5550f09cbc08532d90982f16f99f56db7a264e39254192ad4672d1b90a/OpacityWEB21.jpg" data-mid="228861062" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2adc2f5550f09cbc08532d90982f16f99f56db7a264e39254192ad4672d1b90a/OpacityWEB21.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4342" height="5497" width_o="4342" height_o="5497" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca7ff95950fb03b0fb683d47349d4c169f0658dd13e43ca7b1ab86bfb8933b7f/OpacityWEB.jpg" data-mid="228861043" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca7ff95950fb03b0fb683d47349d4c169f0658dd13e43ca7b1ab86bfb8933b7f/OpacityWEB.jpg" />Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4213" height="5357" width_o="4213" height_o="5357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e58d52f23b80934fb740cde5b8767aa647f1c31bef5905a29b8ec2cc0a989639/OpacityWEB13.jpg" data-mid="228861054" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e58d52f23b80934fb740cde5b8767aa647f1c31bef5905a29b8ec2cc0a989639/OpacityWEB13.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4319" height="5488" width_o="4319" height_o="5488" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89d3cc09126f0eec8745680df780b5ea8ec58c18f124b8ed2abdcaba9cc26997/OpacityWEB9.jpg" data-mid="228861051" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89d3cc09126f0eec8745680df780b5ea8ec58c18f124b8ed2abdcaba9cc26997/OpacityWEB9.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4284" height="5406" width_o="4284" height_o="5406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae20d9cab73bdc0f06187f72bd163207ac2f9d5cb0e78bd83ab66e1d9a0b9fb1/OpacityWEB19.jpg" data-mid="228861060" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae20d9cab73bdc0f06187f72bd163207ac2f9d5cb0e78bd83ab66e1d9a0b9fb1/OpacityWEB19.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4214" height="5345" width_o="4214" height_o="5345" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c174ae274f80b1694e638e0c239c11bdd5320e03206d841116c85623ebfe2349/OpacityWEB20.jpg" data-mid="228861061" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c174ae274f80b1694e638e0c239c11bdd5320e03206d841116c85623ebfe2349/OpacityWEB20.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4307" height="5187" width_o="4307" height_o="5187" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca3c432651d1036790f334111d2c45684d414482f6c506075f9450cb0e58534d/OpacityWEB26.jpg" data-mid="228861067" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca3c432651d1036790f334111d2c45684d414482f6c506075f9450cb0e58534d/OpacityWEB26.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4328" height="5165" width_o="4328" height_o="5165" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/523bbd398955ebd38946e672555e04492c1f79f99a088f36e7511911867b5e43/OpacityWEB24.jpg" data-mid="228861065" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/523bbd398955ebd38946e672555e04492c1f79f99a088f36e7511911867b5e43/OpacityWEB24.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4319" height="5142" width_o="4319" height_o="5142" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0a1cdf5e72d5cfd25a32469944150a613ac0e44c68c28ffdbc62b033a7a421e/OpacityWEB25.jpg" data-mid="228861066" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0a1cdf5e72d5cfd25a32469944150a613ac0e44c68c28ffdbc62b033a7a421e/OpacityWEB25.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4334" height="5146" width_o="4334" height_o="5146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7c3c737798609e695c9b1c00b6f5cb522fee85bb773ead544fd2b5840ebd05e/OpacityWEB23.jpg" data-mid="228861064" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7c3c737798609e695c9b1c00b6f5cb522fee85bb773ead544fd2b5840ebd05e/OpacityWEB23.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4295" height="5131" width_o="4295" height_o="5131" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32096d7ae5cd66a313cf255f676bc77750ea6cfa3955967ab56ec1af7a0f7405/OpacityWEB27.jpg" data-mid="228861068" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32096d7ae5cd66a313cf255f676bc77750ea6cfa3955967ab56ec1af7a0f7405/OpacityWEB27.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4270" height="5104" width_o="4270" height_o="5104" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d165c740237bbd03567f5c633dec08aca80f510643a5a940911efe2f77f092e/OpacityWEB22.jpg" data-mid="228861063" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d165c740237bbd03567f5c633dec08aca80f510643a5a940911efe2f77f092e/OpacityWEB22.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="4309" height="5141" width_o="4309" height_o="5141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1daeedbefcc73a0eb953851e988672c84db2681a8f5043ae610f9ef9932a411d/OpacityWEB28.jpg" data-mid="228861069" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1daeedbefcc73a0eb953851e988672c84db2681a8f5043ae610f9ef9932a411d/OpacityWEB28.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="2389" height="4937" width_o="2389" height_o="4937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/432cd7fa9383d9d7e9d51cf54387f3077fb8ee673f3f9a1c6e2921ebd5e67f7b/OpacityWEB30.jpg" data-mid="228861071" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/432cd7fa9383d9d7e9d51cf54387f3077fb8ee673f3f9a1c6e2921ebd5e67f7b/OpacityWEB30.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="2138" height="5046" width_o="2138" height_o="5046" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/200d1142960ea116da0dc6111de73eb66f72bbd5ca334bed5521a053aa0d9ce5/OpacityWEB32.jpg" data-mid="228861072" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/200d1142960ea116da0dc6111de73eb66f72bbd5ca334bed5521a053aa0d9ce5/OpacityWEB32.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 10.16cm x 12.7cm silver gelatine photogram. <img width="3648" height="4864" width_o="3648" height_o="4864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51965263dceb080f3b97f1dc09804a4e47b7416c2e5ba0eb607ee77bd62bc5fb/project78Install-5.jpg" data-mid="246503558" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51965263dceb080f3b97f1dc09804a4e47b7416c2e5ba0eb607ee77bd62bc5fb/project78Install-5.jpg" /> Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm framed silver gelatine photogram, Project78 gallery solo show ‘Looking At Seeing Through’. Install <img width="3631" height="4539" width_o="3631" height_o="4539" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8107a900781409fdab8ddf43bceb53c72b2533df0a3cf4aa24f5ff4325a9a3cb/project78Install-2.jpg" data-mid="246503642" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8107a900781409fdab8ddf43bceb53c72b2533df0a3cf4aa24f5ff4325a9a3cb/project78Install-2.jpg" /> <img width="3943" height="5914" width_o="3943" height_o="5914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/937b626dc26243de036a4222bdc7ff5ddb2240e59e209a40cb34494e9544c9e9/FL_OpacitiesInstall.jpg" data-mid="229042989" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/937b626dc26243de036a4222bdc7ff5ddb2240e59e209a40cb34494e9544c9e9/FL_OpacitiesInstall.jpg" /> Flatland Projects Install (2024) In partnership with Arts Council England, De La Warr Pavillion, Eastbourne Alive, East Sussex Arts Partnership, Rother District Council and Tallent Accelerator. https://benstezaker.com/Colour-Opacities-2025 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:43:53 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Colour-Opacities-2025 Colour Opacities (2025)The ‘Colour Opacities’ are a series of hand printed C-Type photograms of obscured glass. In complete darkness within the darkroom, the sheets of glass act as compound lenses, fracturing and refracting light from the enlarger to specific focal points directly onto light sensitive paper. Through developing the ‘Opacities’ series in the black and white darkroom using colourless glass I realised that the images I had created were actually negatives. Having access to a colour darkroom, I began experimenting with coloured/ stained glass to see if I&nbsp;would also get the colour in negative. This was the case for the most part, however, what most interested me was what was unexpected. Deep magenta glass became vivid greens and neon yellow bleeding onto the bare photographic paper. The ambiguity of the image seems to free the viewer from the ties that these different image expectations make, allowing the viewer a freedom for imaginary projection. The images of glass seem to reveal something of that exact same ambiguity in the photographic image, their simultaneous crystalline fixity and organic fluidity, as one medium of transparency creates an image of itself in another medium of transparency. <img width="4252" height="5365" width_o="4252" height_o="5365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eee753de4d23f9195fc28c8edf200f7ce7b0b9c1bc80b728717db12c1d220d5/ColourOpacityWEB5.jpg" data-mid="228957392" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6eee753de4d23f9195fc28c8edf200f7ce7b0b9c1bc80b728717db12c1d220d5/ColourOpacityWEB5.jpg" /> Colour Opacity&nbsp;(2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. <img width="4243" height="5369" width_o="4243" height_o="5369" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bc42391042df62e7dca52c6f90e1bae08cc2bb8136395142d007bf133131677/ColourOpacityWEB3.jpg" data-mid="228957390" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bc42391042df62e7dca52c6f90e1bae08cc2bb8136395142d007bf133131677/ColourOpacityWEB3.jpg" /> Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. <img width="4246" height="5345" width_o="4246" height_o="5345" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e0ac7de9b861ebf6427f49474e45d8d049b8555a48e90e6d23cd0fe448af42a/ColourOpacityWEB7.jpg" data-mid="228957394" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e0ac7de9b861ebf6427f49474e45d8d049b8555a48e90e6d23cd0fe448af42a/ColourOpacityWEB7.jpg" />Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. <img width="4221" height="5338" width_o="4221" height_o="5338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8b18d6e553db3ffefb634ea7af2f50cb9d8879b949ce05015b3eb032d137ce7/ColourOpacityWEB2.jpg" data-mid="228957389" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8b18d6e553db3ffefb634ea7af2f50cb9d8879b949ce05015b3eb032d137ce7/ColourOpacityWEB2.jpg" />Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. <img width="4283" height="5408" width_o="4283" height_o="5408" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9d55e01c9cf236906f5c2b67d27a6aebf44f7721e8869cd4f7a85dc0844046f/ColourOpacityWEB.jpg" data-mid="228957388" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9d55e01c9cf236906f5c2b67d27a6aebf44f7721e8869cd4f7a85dc0844046f/ColourOpacityWEB.jpg" />Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. <img width="4248" height="5362" width_o="4248" height_o="5362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb3b6d6b6534a601b96125c3487de330427c241ef022cf257ba8948ebaf8f458/ColourOpacityWEB8.jpg" data-mid="228957395" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb3b6d6b6534a601b96125c3487de330427c241ef022cf257ba8948ebaf8f458/ColourOpacityWEB8.jpg" />Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. <img width="4293" height="5387" width_o="4293" height_o="5387" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bf0981d5c5a1eabd19e3731fd128fc47b9a711a8fe2ef8512f92428279e237d/ColourOpacityWEB6.jpg" data-mid="228957393" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bf0981d5c5a1eabd19e3731fd128fc47b9a711a8fe2ef8512f92428279e237d/ColourOpacityWEB6.jpg" />Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. <img width="4239" height="5362" width_o="4239" height_o="5362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80e0a0c72af0822cf0ec7c6bdf0456a59b6c9de14a33128ba3c4967c093ccf8f/ColourOpacityWEB4.jpg" data-mid="228957391" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80e0a0c72af0822cf0ec7c6bdf0456a59b6c9de14a33128ba3c4967c093ccf8f/ColourOpacityWEB4.jpg" /> Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram. https://benstezaker.com/Alternative-Process-Opacities-2023-Present Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:21:47 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Alternative-Process-Opacities-2023-Present Alternative Process Opacities (2023-Present) <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afcced7c0a5aed95c5f5dbd991790a0e96f0269f10a4bf559f9b21358b95f0c6/OpacityAmbrotype2.jpg" data-mid="229038158" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afcced7c0a5aed95c5f5dbd991790a0e96f0269f10a4bf559f9b21358b95f0c6/OpacityAmbrotype2.jpg" />Opacity (2024)&nbsp;10.16 x 15.24 cm wet plate collodion ambrotype of glass on glass with shadow. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6437e213cef13ea7506ad94a87a35bfd37aba22fd3d39158d4a91257a61fa421/OpacityAmbrotype.jpg" data-mid="229038252" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6437e213cef13ea7506ad94a87a35bfd37aba22fd3d39158d4a91257a61fa421/OpacityAmbrotype.jpg" /> Detail. <img width="6663" height="4109" width_o="6663" height_o="4109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45d79d5dace4cfae947ba08c10030f5f9d84d512541b71f6fc2bb5b93c566ab2/OpacityCyanotypeAlex6.jpg" data-mid="229108412" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45d79d5dace4cfae947ba08c10030f5f9d84d512541b71f6fc2bb5b93c566ab2/OpacityCyanotypeAlex6.jpg" /> Opacity (2023) 51.3cm x 35cm cyanotype photogram. <img width="2588" height="2070" width_o="2588" height_o="2070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bf2a01961bb66a99a1b8c7c76a2015c47c6736b25e2d04c01f8ec870632618c/OpacityCyanotype8.jpg" data-mid="229160352" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bf2a01961bb66a99a1b8c7c76a2015c47c6736b25e2d04c01f8ec870632618c/OpacityCyanotype8.jpg" />- <img width="4255" height="4297" width_o="4255" height_o="4297" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbde43bae936ad9bdadabf77adb0f152502064cbbebcd1253151772133002a07/CyanotypeOpacityAlex.jpg" data-mid="229108312" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbde43bae936ad9bdadabf77adb0f152502064cbbebcd1253151772133002a07/CyanotypeOpacityAlex.jpg" />Opacity (2023) 35cm x 35cm cyanotype photogram. <img width="2318" height="2318" width_o="2318" height_o="2318" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/049d3af9746830918709f2c5505644fbdb99a75152bc5f25d12da41b3f048436/CyanotypeOpacity.jpg" data-mid="229037122" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/049d3af9746830918709f2c5505644fbdb99a75152bc5f25d12da41b3f048436/CyanotypeOpacity.jpg" /> - <img width="4229" height="4289" width_o="4229" height_o="4289" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d22abc79d9f1267427b214ad5c2f5b2495c701e340d485b53dc1a630272dbae3/CyanotypeOpacityAlex2.jpg" data-mid="229108342" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d22abc79d9f1267427b214ad5c2f5b2495c701e340d485b53dc1a630272dbae3/CyanotypeOpacityAlex2.jpg" />Opacity (2023) 35cm x 35cm cyanotype photogram. <img width="2403" height="2403" width_o="2403" height_o="2403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb0ebbc92475186c626723c441fab05550d2ad47f336398640b628b4f6510d7a/CyanotypeOpacity3.jpg" data-mid="229036460" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb0ebbc92475186c626723c441fab05550d2ad47f336398640b628b4f6510d7a/CyanotypeOpacity3.jpg" /> - <img width="4299" height="4362" width_o="4299" height_o="4362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30395f6f2ef9026ab8d5d3bc2f35006877193d6bb4314823e5a68173c7bfb2c4/OpacityCyanotypeAlex3.jpg" data-mid="229108384" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30395f6f2ef9026ab8d5d3bc2f35006877193d6bb4314823e5a68173c7bfb2c4/OpacityCyanotypeAlex3.jpg" />Opacity (2023) 35cm x 35cm cyanotype photogram. <img width="2397" height="2397" width_o="2397" height_o="2397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78cdedff14a5aa5981a97a19564d62a42f197d463e7aed5787503379f2c49c94/CyanotypeOpacity2.jpg" data-mid="229037304" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78cdedff14a5aa5981a97a19564d62a42f197d463e7aed5787503379f2c49c94/CyanotypeOpacity2.jpg" /> - <img width="4322" height="4333" width_o="4322" height_o="4333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab58b95a869faf682b5ca830c7492e365c6e633626340df23dfcd6569b0ef075/OpacityCyanotypeAlex4.jpg" data-mid="229108281" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab58b95a869faf682b5ca830c7492e365c6e633626340df23dfcd6569b0ef075/OpacityCyanotypeAlex4.jpg" />Opacity (2023) 29.7cm x 35cm cyanotype photogram. <img width="4313" height="4336" width_o="4313" height_o="4336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/714eb5828d0786a92ac9eb08529ea06ff75c15047c57ad8846375dae1b5fffff/OpacityCyanotypeAlex5.jpg" data-mid="229108391" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/714eb5828d0786a92ac9eb08529ea06ff75c15047c57ad8846375dae1b5fffff/OpacityCyanotypeAlex5.jpg" /> Opacity (2023) 35cm x 35cm cyanotype photogram. <img width="2423" height="2423" width_o="2423" height_o="2423" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c16e3c0362bfb438bc977621503676c136f4d6cc100a55e688888c6cdc8fe54/CyanotypeOpacity4.jpg" data-mid="229037017" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c16e3c0362bfb438bc977621503676c136f4d6cc100a55e688888c6cdc8fe54/CyanotypeOpacity4.jpg" />Opacity (2023) 35cm x 35cm framed cyanotype contact print. <img width="2039" height="2039" width_o="2039" height_o="2039" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a71fc735ab37808fff3f140ce2d7c7280cde3f5b97feef6c6048258fb893d9f2/CyanotypeOpacity6.jpg" data-mid="229037093" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a71fc735ab37808fff3f140ce2d7c7280cde3f5b97feef6c6048258fb893d9f2/CyanotypeOpacity6.jpg" /> Opacity (2023) 35cm x 35cm framed cyanotype contact print. <img width="1567" height="1567" width_o="1567" height_o="1567" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c8f6f2b6878911fcf2f8164264d93a6c174fd5184580a164f1a63baadea7e42/CyanotypeOpacity9.jpg" data-mid="229160357" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c8f6f2b6878911fcf2f8164264d93a6c174fd5184580a164f1a63baadea7e42/CyanotypeOpacity9.jpg" /> Opacity (2023) 35cm x 35cm framed cyanotype contact print of glass behind glass. https://benstezaker.com/Bridge-2022-24 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:58:16 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Bridge-2022-24 Bridge (2022-24) Over the past 5 years I have been photographing and documenting the ever-changing configurations of over-painted erasures of graffiti made by council workers in Brighton and London. The most recent group of these painted acts of concealment are the ‘Bridge’ series which are photographs taken on a slip-road bridge into London. The title ‘Bridge’ has a double meaning. Firstly, it’s the location of the photographs and secondly, I think of the images themselves as bridges between the worlds of visual experience: painting and photography; the gallery and the street. As the series of photographs developed over several years the focus of attention shifted from the found, unintentional paintings and the various artists to which they inadvertently seemed to allude to, to an interest in the relation with the frame. Soft pastel colours juxtapose the rusted structure of the bridge which now spanned a separation in time: Edwardian England and the contemporary world and the framing devices of museums and engineers.&nbsp; <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3a3f579d5509a827f6414d70435864d2e76154c9091802d03109f33d104c538/Bridge36WEBSKY.jpg" data-mid="222933115" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3a3f579d5509a827f6414d70435864d2e76154c9091802d03109f33d104c538/Bridge36WEBSKY.jpg" /> Bridge (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4af8cf9a326fad4ad20344eec8035bed7570a7d705f70287f077d771d23a43c2/BridgeWeb4.jpg" data-mid="222926258" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4af8cf9a326fad4ad20344eec8035bed7570a7d705f70287f077d771d23a43c2/BridgeWeb4.jpg" /> Bridge II (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ac1edbc0eefa5ff5489452da1be20c291b586dd2b11b47c547210b6c3523dc2/BridgeWeb.jpg" data-mid="222926229" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ac1edbc0eefa5ff5489452da1be20c291b586dd2b11b47c547210b6c3523dc2/BridgeWeb.jpg" />Bridge III&nbsp;(2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44ede00902d6ffb20a4bb37d45838514c357255326bb0dd515117c6e417e3f57/BridgeWeb3.jpg" data-mid="222926257" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44ede00902d6ffb20a4bb37d45838514c357255326bb0dd515117c6e417e3f57/BridgeWeb3.jpg" />Bridge IV (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa414c1f3ddc7e9fd2a837cc5a525de276e1c460c7d620908e5f6a538669511e/BridgeWeb2.jpg" data-mid="222926256" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa414c1f3ddc7e9fd2a837cc5a525de276e1c460c7d620908e5f6a538669511e/BridgeWeb2.jpg" />Bridge V (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/887f43be2923cdedc598aa1be18c6464892f583ed3140996aae6c8c9e32d27c9/BridgeWeb7.jpg" data-mid="222926261" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/887f43be2923cdedc598aa1be18c6464892f583ed3140996aae6c8c9e32d27c9/BridgeWeb7.jpg" />Bridge VI (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1d0bc4080decaaf23052aeeeb615af4ced34b1507a7b6251f8bb31256b618c2/BridgeWeb8.jpg" data-mid="222926262" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1d0bc4080decaaf23052aeeeb615af4ced34b1507a7b6251f8bb31256b618c2/BridgeWeb8.jpg" />Bridge VII (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. https://benstezaker.com/Temple-from-the-Bridge-series-2022-24 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:57:05 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Temple-from-the-Bridge-series-2022-24 Temple - from the “Bridge” series (2022-24) The temple series came about as an extension of the ‘Bridge’ series of photographs, taken on an adjacent bridge. As the overpainting started to extend onto the frames themselves, the interest of the photographs started to shift to focus on the combination of the abstract painting and the framing devices themselves as in many Howard Hodgkin paintings. At first the interest was in the resemblance with abstract paintings but later the decorative ironwork used to surround these metal panels became of equal interest. I found them to be reminiscent of classical temples and porticoes framing the accidentally created compositions. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a122958c17bfb44c7ac0682fc74f7ff1a1ff5da2479dc7f223240510562f2c98/BridgeWebTemple2.jpg" data-mid="228957107" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a122958c17bfb44c7ac0682fc74f7ff1a1ff5da2479dc7f223240510562f2c98/BridgeWebTemple2.jpg" /> Temple I (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60bbea89f0149f750107f32fdd6d9b2df2626cb9ff702c7929abe831cfa8fb88/BridgeWebTemple3.jpg" data-mid="228957108" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60bbea89f0149f750107f32fdd6d9b2df2626cb9ff702c7929abe831cfa8fb88/BridgeWebTemple3.jpg" /> Temple II (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eae16b0517bbd7395bbf9dc760a67bd7d4cc7138d38cfbe1eb2765e3364ea88/BridgeWebTemple.jpg" data-mid="228957106" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eae16b0517bbd7395bbf9dc760a67bd7d4cc7138d38cfbe1eb2765e3364ea88/BridgeWebTemple.jpg" /> Temple III (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f47acec98e03498355e50d4e2c9baf6f5e06f13ec85c9cdfd88fbf00593cd6a/BridgeWebTemple4.jpg" data-mid="228957109" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f47acec98e03498355e50d4e2c9baf6f5e06f13ec85c9cdfd88fbf00593cd6a/BridgeWebTemple4.jpg" /> Temple IV (2022-24) 8x12 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1d106b789f71c3c34aa6a537302a8e27635bd89e84e78a9c4630d99ded3abfe/TEMPLEWEB.jpg" data-mid="228957245" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1d106b789f71c3c34aa6a537302a8e27635bd89e84e78a9c4630d99ded3abfe/TEMPLEWEB.jpg" /> Temple V (2022-24) 8x12 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/178377573492dccc5ba11643762f9947c0257c906e7b1e92c158818c4a9741e7/TEMPLEWEB3.jpg" data-mid="228957247" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/178377573492dccc5ba11643762f9947c0257c906e7b1e92c158818c4a9741e7/TEMPLEWEB3.jpg" /> Temple VI (2022-24) 8x12 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a239144a10f0cc5ea11f8e38a7f01ddd2cf5aef4ec57258e1591285f886b63ea/TEMPLEWEB2.jpg" data-mid="228957246" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a239144a10f0cc5ea11f8e38a7f01ddd2cf5aef4ec57258e1591285f886b63ea/TEMPLEWEB2.jpg" />Temple VII (2022-24) 8x12 inch Archival gicle print. https://benstezaker.com/Garden-2023-24 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:39:50 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Garden-2023-24 Garden (2023-24)The Garden series provides a point in which the medium of photography confronts itself in a confusion of spacial realities. It takes as its subject the photo murals used to conceal building works happening behind. The photographic images of a garden wall with trees behind suggested a threshold into a garden. Access to which was through the illusory photographic image. Like the mythic garden of Eden from which humanity has been excluded. It is locked and impenetrable. Entry is only through the image and the imagination. The garden series is the latest in a series of photographs of two dimensional surfaces in the everyday urban landscape.&nbsp; <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0ee51418e2fd7aa373d2fd0946ea0539d0727b3ac710c45fab2fbbe8f864d1b/GARDENWEBSKY.jpg" data-mid="222932840" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0ee51418e2fd7aa373d2fd0946ea0539d0727b3ac710c45fab2fbbe8f864d1b/GARDENWEBSKY.jpg" /> Garden I (2023-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/449e929dc95ef53104dd868385871d5243fff3a0ec4e8c3aca4312fc5b0c0984/GARDEN2WEBSKY.jpg" data-mid="222932158" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/449e929dc95ef53104dd868385871d5243fff3a0ec4e8c3aca4312fc5b0c0984/GARDEN2WEBSKY.jpg" />Garden II&nbsp;(2023-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ae960ed2f295270bc771c0d3962050d5e6eda6a2f71cccdbbd23f0ab5b5c033/Garden3WEBSKY.jpg" data-mid="222932606" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ae960ed2f295270bc771c0d3962050d5e6eda6a2f71cccdbbd23f0ab5b5c033/Garden3WEBSKY.jpg" />Garden III&nbsp;(2023-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print. <img width="2390" height="3286" width_o="2390" height_o="3286" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efb00b56a17a5a2e590f3730058177e38ddf0afb18b35f4ecf3771d492a69e4f/Garden4WEBSKY.jpg" data-mid="222932729" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efb00b56a17a5a2e590f3730058177e38ddf0afb18b35f4ecf3771d492a69e4f/Garden4WEBSKY.jpg" />Garden IV&nbsp;(2023-24) 8x11 inch Archival gicle print. https://benstezaker.com/Cloudscape-2022-24 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:35:28 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Cloudscape-2022-24 Cloudscape (2022-24) The ‘Cloudscape’ series are photographs of painted clouds on distressed plaster walls. The images reminded me of Chinese and Japanese landscape paintings in which clouds are often central areas of emptiness within the pictorial scene. These spatial gaps served a double purpose in scroll paintings as representing the Buddhist void (behind appearances) and the material substrate, the paper of the painted scrolls left bare; they mediate between the presence and absence of the pictorial illusion. My found ‘Cloudscapes’ seem to operate exactly on that threshold of appearance and disappearance, as the slow degeneration of the blown plaster takes over the painted contours of the clouds. The images create an ambiguous space in which surfaces, materialities as well as modes of representation (painting, photography) interweave. <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ca02e38789b6dad56b00538b97bdb5ad070547503e71257a7e6883588b36ce3/Cloud-surface-Final-copy.jpg" data-mid="222869091" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ca02e38789b6dad56b00538b97bdb5ad070547503e71257a7e6883588b36ce3/Cloud-surface-Final-copy.jpg" />Cloudscape&nbsp;I (2022-24) 12x8 inch Archival gicle print <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abe3f734db0d7f24ce54b31fae7e1ee97e1e56d53a302c6319228e9f1429db74/Cloud-surface-Final-2-copy.jpg" data-mid="222869083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abe3f734db0d7f24ce54b31fae7e1ee97e1e56d53a302c6319228e9f1429db74/Cloud-surface-Final-2-copy.jpg" />Cloudscape II&nbsp;(2022-24)&nbsp;12x8 inch Archival gicle print <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/484832f875e27ec388f80620d14c0cd1ef7529b087009ae07df276cdf6114559/cloud-surface-Final-3-copy.jpg" data-mid="222869221" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/484832f875e27ec388f80620d14c0cd1ef7529b087009ae07df276cdf6114559/cloud-surface-Final-3-copy.jpg" /> Cloudscape III&nbsp;(2022-24)&nbsp;12x8 inch Archival gicle print <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14da0d5d8e825661acd67cd599f93c36c6685dfc94247ad5d91e595ab147d555/Cloud-surface-Final-4-copy.jpg" data-mid="222869288" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14da0d5d8e825661acd67cd599f93c36c6685dfc94247ad5d91e595ab147d555/Cloud-surface-Final-4-copy.jpg" />Cloudscape IV&nbsp;(2022-24)&nbsp;12x8 inch Archival gicle print <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0223f0067f5d9c9851d73061b4a8d6729d3b4643f004e0a1d269c0fa56cf199/Cloud-surface-Final-5.jpg" data-mid="222869005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0223f0067f5d9c9851d73061b4a8d6729d3b4643f004e0a1d269c0fa56cf199/Cloud-surface-Final-5.jpg" /> Cloudscape V&nbsp;(2022-24)&nbsp;12x8 inch Archival gicle print <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cc970f24f7e160e36b5dcd7d57ab51e0b89c4d4e7e79f8cc30056192d096c23/Cloud-surface-Final-6.jpg" data-mid="222869012" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cc970f24f7e160e36b5dcd7d57ab51e0b89c4d4e7e79f8cc30056192d096c23/Cloud-surface-Final-6.jpg" /> Cloudscape VI (2022-24)&nbsp;12x8 inch Archival gicle print https://benstezaker.com/Untitled-from-Opacities-series-2022-23 Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:42:06 +0000 Benjamin Stezaker Art https://benstezaker.com/Untitled-from-Opacities-series-2022-23 Untitled (from Opacities series 2022-23)I am using the obscured glass to create a disruption in the photographic image which is used mainly as a transparent medium for recording the world and communicating images of it. As a result we barely pay attention to the mediation of the image at all. By creating a distance through disruption and an emphasis on the physicality of the printed image, the viewer is encouraged to look at rather than see through the image. The viewer is able to to see the image as an image rather than as a window onto the world. By focusing the eye on the surface materiality of the image, the translucent glass creates a painterly version of the image. Translucency allows for a blurring of the boundaries between the substrate of the image and the reality it represents. Having chosen this particular piece of street furniture with its frosted translucent glass, I chose to introduce a further device to distance the viewer from the image creating a frame within a frame so that the unmediated flowers, vegetation and insect life on the edge allow for a layering of the image between the frame of the photograph and the frame of the frosted glass. This combination of an attention both to the surface of the image and to its referent in equal proportions is a condition for what Raymond Bellour calls pensive vision or vision that is both able to see and to reflect on seeing. <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63374ac6a0d61aa4bc607038592e566b126e0441c75106fee2741a61933ccd36/spectrumtakeover1.jpg" data-mid="181924168" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63374ac6a0d61aa4bc607038592e566b126e0441c75106fee2741a61933ccd36/spectrumtakeover1.jpg" /> Untitled I (from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium. <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74624621291d8e1c2043cb5ae18d8158e322c5fba7dafc96c94d8d815f65e90e/spectrumtakeover2.jpg" data-mid="181924526" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74624621291d8e1c2043cb5ae18d8158e322c5fba7dafc96c94d8d815f65e90e/spectrumtakeover2.jpg" /> Untitled II (from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium. <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b65e8cfe68bc3bec59eb078f61374ed6988ffc418be371ec3fbf8b520c2e0d28/spectrumtakeover3.jpg" data-mid="181924748" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b65e8cfe68bc3bec59eb078f61374ed6988ffc418be371ec3fbf8b520c2e0d28/spectrumtakeover3.jpg" /> Untitled III (from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium. <img width="2953" height="2362" width_o="2953" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59fbe8dba45458ad1a8a3646fde70a200568fa5fdab883b3e2376bdf934a3d23/OBSCURED4.4.jpg" data-mid="181924819" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59fbe8dba45458ad1a8a3646fde70a200568fa5fdab883b3e2376bdf934a3d23/OBSCURED4.4.jpg" />Untitled IV (from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium. <img width="2953" height="2362" width_o="2953" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64a0e4d80d940a9403d81041d5720a4f5af1a6f97b149987abf9813160fbdea7/OBSCURED1.1.jpg" data-mid="181924841" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64a0e4d80d940a9403d81041d5720a4f5af1a6f97b149987abf9813160fbdea7/OBSCURED1.1.jpg" />Untitled V&nbsp;(from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium. <img width="2953" height="2362" width_o="2953" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0de27b19426ac7efa4d4d02e8446162eff12e3c4de5d7ca83071a084167484e/OBSCURED3.3.jpg" data-mid="181924898" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0de27b19426ac7efa4d4d02e8446162eff12e3c4de5d7ca83071a084167484e/OBSCURED3.3.jpg" />Untitled VI (from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium. <img width="2953" height="2362" width_o="2953" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c3203a82091dc2d92f55c793875c1b5203502e817c5a7110afae2dfc510b1d3/OBSCURED2.2.jpg" data-mid="181924909" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c3203a82091dc2d92f55c793875c1b5203502e817c5a7110afae2dfc510b1d3/OBSCURED2.2.jpg" />Untitled VII (from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium. <img width="3950" height="3160" width_o="3950" height_o="3160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff96d06c619344bb12d2634c5ffd7beabe079f71231cfef1dfb13f5a3d332e06/OBSCURED8-copy.jpg" data-mid="181924958" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff96d06c619344bb12d2634c5ffd7beabe079f71231cfef1dfb13f5a3d332e06/OBSCURED8-copy.jpg" />Untitled VIII (from the Opacity series 2023) 75 x 60cm archival giclee print on aluminium.