Artist statement: Family photos B explores the idea of family history through an archaeological and transformative process of mirroring and rephotographing of the source image. The photographic process highlights the latent content of the original image and the slippery and indexical relationship of memory to image while keying into a collective yet diverse lexicon of perceptual readings.
The source image for ‘UA SA, 1968’ is of my film executive father and mother together with company executives, actors and politicians in Johannesburg at the launch of Hang 'em high. The rephotographed image with Medusa-like effect re-focuses the scene on my mother – party to and a visual embodiment of the colonial film industry and its political histories in the era of apartheid.
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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.
