Finland Mordançage

I spent the month of March doing the Silence Awareness Existence residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland. I photographed the winter landscape and have been working in the darkroom this past month to make Mordançage prints of the images. Here is some of my progress so far (including side trips to Iceland and Estonia!).

A Strange Occurrence in the Forest

More Sightings 2 images. Experimenting with the idea of surveillance of a certain place, which has different people visiting it for some mysterious reason, all staring menacingly at the sky.

Possible Sightings 2

I have been shooting some images that could potentially be a continuation of my Sightings project. Examining what the images look like when people are staring into the sky, but there is nothing there, as opposed to the previous work, where campy UFOs are in the sky. Not sure about it yet, still think it needs another element added.

Prokudin-Gorskii Experiment Works!

I tried again to make colour images out of 3 b/w images, as I had tried to do once in the summer. This time it works! My results are still very messy, but clear enough to see how I can proceed to make better ones. The first one is infrared film, though very underexposed. The second is regular b/w film (the developing of which I messed up due to trying to use a developing tank I found without a lid). I am going to try both b/w and infrared again, next time much more perfect.

A New Way of Looking at Colour Photography

A few weeks ago, I found this amazing body of work by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who took colour photographs of Russia around 1909-1912. How is that done? Have a look at the link:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

I wondered if I could do it myself, and with infrared film. First time, fail. Next time better.