Artist statement: Over the last few years I have been inviting people into my home studio to sit for the ongoing series Vantages.
Using dual large format cameras, each portrait is exposed onto separate sheets of black-and-white film, simultaneously capturing two images of the sitter from different perspectives.
The process is slow and methodical, enabling an intimate exchange that highlights the agency between photographer and subject.
When viewed through a stereoscope, these dual-portraits can be seen three dimensionally, rendering the subject hauntingly statuesque.
Conscious of their own vulnerabilities, they’re aware of what it means to represent themselves, and through the very nature of this dual-imaging process, resist being reduced to a single vantage point.
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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.
