Artist statement: Hyunji Kim – known online as Kim Kim is an artist from South Korea who lives and works between Melbourne and Perth. Her work concentrates on the portraiture of her friends and peers, all in their 20s. We’d gotten drunk together at the David Hockney opening and hatched a plan to try a photographic portrait, and amongst all the carefully framed head-shots was this image of her checking her phone and 30,000 Instagram followers. I was immediately struck by how different and impenetrable our worlds were.
www.roberthague.com
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.
