Artist statement:
The details have, over time, begun to slip away from the people of our world, and we have lost something because of that. Whenever I take my camera to shoot photos I always find myself concentrating on the tiny little details, capturing these and finding that they are even more beautiful than the whole picture. These details, by themselves, are immensely beautiful, but when the subject matter is depicted as so subjective that it is almost teasing you as to what it is, the way the line, shape and form is used, it creates a new level of complex beauty. To achieve this, I worked with a wide aperture to create a shallow depth of field to manipulate the subject matter to my liking.
Ainslie Wallace has three works from this series selected for exhibition
Gelatin silver prints are black-and-white photographic prints that have been created using papers coated with an emulsion of gelatin and light-sensitive silver salts. After the papers are briefly exposed to light (usually through a negative), a chemical developer renders the latent image as reduced silver, which is then fixed and washed. This technique was first introduced in the 1870s and is still used today. Most twentieth-century black-and-white photographs are gelatin silver prints. They are known for being highly detailed and sharply defined prints with a distinguishable smooth, even image surface.
