Artist statement: Amidst home schooling, working from home, with the arts devalued, the loss of connection and anxiety growing …
We thought about finishing things, sorted old photos, we watched Netflix, we looked at images of the heroic front-line workers.
Eventually we started looking. Looked harder, we saw other images, took time to see the domestic, the personal, the local.
Our community.
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2020 COLOUR FACTORY HONOURABLE MENTION
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.
