Artist statement:
I am interested in the way our built environment offers an encounter with the thoughts, practices, and feelings of another time and place. I use digital and analogue photographic methods, omitting key steps in the developing process, to call attention to how our perception of historical content inscribed within the image is susceptible to change over time. This encounter with history, memory and forgetting, mimics our relationship with the photograph itself and is presented as a distinctly variable event.
‘Untitled 01’ from the series Cave in the garden, explores the legacy of architectural Modernism and contrasts the ancient cave complex of Ellora, India with Le Corbusier’s iconic Unité d'habitation in Marseille, France.
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.
