Artist statement: City de noir is a personal project with a focus primarily on documenting life in Sydney and exploring relations between the city and its inhabitants. Pictures create the surreal impression of urban life immersed in city and native environment which as a body of work aim to provoke thought, consideration and reflection on behalf of the viewer towards this unique city.
City de noir assembles a suite of black-and-white images that focus on presenting intimate moments extracted from the urban and natural surroundings. Through this, the selection draws attention to and captures both fleeting moments and particular contexts that might represent the unseen and overlooked life within the city of Sydney. Evocatively produced within the constraints of black-and-white, pictures employ long-exposure infrared techniques to capture the dynamism of the city with a sensitive restraint of palette and temporality. Denying the abundant colour-saturation of the city, as well as its most ubiquitous architectural and geographical landmarks, City de noir presents a selection of vernacular imagery that cast a gaze upon the minutiae of life.
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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.
