Artist statement:
As a practicing Adelaide architect and exhibiting photographer, I am particularly inspired and influenced by the built environment; both the sprawling mass of suburbia and the concentration and density of the city. This form of photography for me fulfils two important purposes: as a record of constant change and as a means of expressing something beautiful and profound within the otherwise overlooked. My ambition is to translate the codes of architectural photography and arrive at something emotive.
During the course of a trip to the eastern states of the United States in late 2014, I was fortunate to be able to take time to explore and capture a broad range of vernacular architecture that seemed to be consistently cast in the most remarkable and atmospheric light.
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.
