Artist statement: This series of photographs is from the last conversation I had with my friend and brother-in-law Alberto Vidal who was in the final weeks of terminal cancer in a hospital in France. Over the years we shared many conversations on Skype, separated by a screen and thousands of kilometres of ocean. Something of the pathos of these calls is captured in these screen shots in which the breaking up of the image into exaggerated pixels of colour is almost a metaphor for what was happening to his body, as is the often unusual angle of the view, a reminder of the times we were left watching the ceiling when the less than convenient mode of communication imposed its own vision.
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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.
