The series Urgent attention required explores the fragility of our planet and how we respond to nature and the creatures that inhabit it. It also plays with the notion of what is real and what is fiction, with a surrealist twist to the landscape.
This imaginary mountain was once a stunning tourist location, but has become a dumping ground for human waste material. The peak has already lost its freshness and luminosity and appears more like a gloomy, distant cityscape. The region is in danger of becoming an environmental disaster.
My message is simple: the mountain is significant, but the mess we have created is much greater.
Chromogenic prints are printed on paper that has at least three emulsion layers containing invisible dyes and silver salts. Each emulsion layer is sensitive to a different primary colour of light (red, green or blue). The development process converts the hidden dyes to visible colour depending on the amount of light it was exposed to. This type of paper is commonly used to print from colour negatives or digital files to produce a full-colour image. It can also be used to print black-and-white images, giving softer grain and less contrast than gelatin silver prints. Commonly known as c-type prints, chromogenic processing was developed in the 1940s and widely used for colour printing, including for domestic snapshots. While recent years have seen this process accompanied by ink-jet and digital printing technologies, chromogenic printing still remains in use to this day.
