Artist statement: My love for Italian Renaissance and Dutch Golden Age painting inspires my choice of composition, colours and post-production treatment, blurring the boundaries between photography and painting. The subject of this series is my daughter, Julia, but I see my images also as self-portraits, journaling my childhood dreams and memories and inviting others to experience and revive their personal associations with this powerful period in our lives. This image was inspired by the painting ‘November’ (1643) by Joachim von Sandrart, and provoked strong memories of hiking with my father in the Black Forest, where I spent my childhood.
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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.
