Cherine Fahd’s photographic practice is generally concerned with the ways that people occupy their environments. Fahd typically composes images where a human subject has an incongruous or uneasy relationship with the world around them. This has included candid photographs of people using public showers (The chosen, 2003), and people sleeping in public parks (The sleepers, 2005). More recently, she has focused on her own relationship with her domestic environment (Hiding self-portraits, 2009-10 and Breath, 2011). The series A woman runs (2003) is similarly concerned with capturing a tension between subjective interiority and the external environment. In this instance, Fahd creates a humorous disjunction between woman and nature.
(2014)
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.
