Fiona Foley created this series of works while undertaking a residency in New York in 2004. According to Foley, HHH is the acronym for ‘Hedonistic Honky Haters’, a secret society that was founded in North America in 1965 (‘Honky’ is African-American slang for white person). As part of this artistic ruse, Foley claims to have found and photographed seven HHH members while she resided in New York. To create these works, Foley adopted the conventions of ethnographic studio portraiture, with the HHH members posing against a white backdrop and staring blankly at the camera. Foley, however, has inverted this genre by dressing her subjects in black hoods that mimic those worn by the Ku Klux Klan. Instead of being objectified by ethnographic documentation, Foley’s subjects challenge this convention with beady eyes that interrogate the viewer from behind opulent masks of Dutch wax fabric.
(2020)
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.
