It is midnight, Dr _ _ #92016
Artist statement: This image deliberately withholds easy understanding. It is freighted with a perpetual tension, with the promise and anticipation of revelation. An empty stage-like setting imbued with silence, a heavy curtain draped with tied sashes, subterranean light: it is a scene both tawdry and sumptuous, an occasion never revealed, and a threshold to another world, hidden, mysterious, unseen.
My work has long been preoccupied with both capturing what is intuited and felt in real places – places often overlooked and abandoned – and building imaginary worlds. The photographs are a distillation of the sensations and perceptions of these atmospheres.
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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.
