View from Chinook, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
2007–08
In early 2007, Brown and Green visited
military installations throughout the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. As official war artists, they photographed their experience of Australian troops and the environments in which they operated. The photograph 'View from Chinook, Helmand Province, Afghanistan' depicts the harsh mountainous and desert landscape of Afghanistan which is home to Taliban fighters and remains a strongly contested landscape. This spectacular, remote landscape is viewed through the narrow, dirty windows of a Chinook helicopter. The image is the antithesis of triumphal depictions of a war zone. Much of the picture (the interior of the helicopter) is in darkness, reflecting the fear felt by the photographer (Lyndell Brown) and the Australian troops operating the aircraft. The picture is drawn from an archive of over 4 000 photographs taken by the artists during their deployment.
(2018)
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
