Josephine Quigley with her grandson Aaron at the site of their burnt out home in Warragamba, NSW
2002
Philip Gostelow’s series Black Christmas bushfires was produced during the Black Christmas bushfires, which started in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales on Christmas Eve in 2001 and continued into January 2002. At the time of the fires, Gostelow was living in Woodford in the Blue Mountains, which was badly burnt. Immersed in the place and time of this catastrophe, he captured his experiences, showing residents in front of plumes of smoke, as well as portraits of people confronting their burnt homes and lost possessions.
(2024)
Gelatin silver prints are black-and-white photographic prints that have been created using papers coated with an emulsion of gelatin and light-sensitive silver salts. After the papers are briefly exposed to light (usually through a negative), a chemical developer renders the latent image as reduced silver, which is then fixed and washed. This technique was first introduced in the 1870s and is still used today. Most twentieth-century black-and-white photographs are gelatin silver prints. They are known for being highly detailed and sharply defined prints with a distinguishable smooth, even image surface.
