Untitled (Design Archive)2019
Artist statement: This photograph is from an ongoing series engaging with institutional space and architecture, considering the impacts on the body by educational and institutional authority. The photographic process of recording the body depicts my physical and experiential memory of these sites, which is often absurd or uncomfortable.
My practice at large is informed by feminist theory and considers the implications of representing a woman's body (my own) in an inherently fetishising medium. My aim with all my photographs is to subvert the dominant ways we depict women's subjectivity.
This picture was made at and commissioned by RMIT University, Melbourne, an institution I have engaged with as a photography student and now lecturer. It is also where my late father studied architecture in the 1950s, which prompted my thinking about our personal connections to these educational spaces over time.
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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.
