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Impression

Photography
 
This work looks at Phenomenology, the structure of different forms of experience including perception, thought, memory, imagination, emotion and desire. Through the use of multiple exposures the work depicts joining together, combination and amalgamation of many different images of the same object, the way knowledge is built up through perceiving. This layering also allows me to capture all of the available light and shadow from the landscape, which merges together to create images that are both beautiful and mysterious. The images are created to intentionally direct your attention to something in the world.
Photography is intrinsically linked to vision in the way that objects appear. The indexical way that light touches the eye, emitting from the object is the same way that light etches into the sensitive surface of film. This trace, a referent to the real object, travels to the retina/sensitive surface, allowing an image to transpire.                                                                                A contact print is made by the film being in direct convergence with the photographic paper, when light is shown through, an image is created on the page which is then developed and fixed, by doing a contact print I was showing the sense of touch that needs to happen in order to see, and the camera to depict.
Lith Printing uses an infectious development, a separation of dark and light tones. Dark tones develop very fast and the light tones slow. Meaning the grain in the shadow areas become enlarged and exaggerated and the grains in the lighter areas become soft and smooth. 
Impression
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Impression

This work looks at the way human vision and photography are similar, through the act of touch, attention and selection.

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