Shadow Nelson, Fitzroy, Melbourne2017
Artist statement: This work is part of an ongoing photo essay of Sudanese refugees living in Australia. I followed Nelson Kur (rock) Deng (rain), an aspiring Human rights lawyer, around Melbourne for two weeks documenting his everyday life. While he has two Australian university scholarships under his belt and has been in Australia for 15 years (more than half his life), he wonders out loud when he will be able to practice as a lawyer and be called ‘Australian’ as opposed to a refugee, an African, Sudanese or South Sudanese. Is Nelson going to stay in the shadows or step out from them? Time will tell …
Photographed in his public housing flat at the time, in Fitzroy in 2017.
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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.
