This week Photo London will take place at Somerset House and I am thrilled to be showing three brand new works there with Gas Gallery. Following a preview date on 8th September the show will then run from 9th – 12th September and will be the first photography fair to take place anywhere in the world since 2019. There will also be a digital version of the fair running until 28th September allowing those unable to travel to view curated picks by leading photography professionals.
My three works for the show are titled ‘Hours’, ‘Minutes’ and ‘Seconds’, reflecting the time of the exposure to light used to create the colours and gradients in each collection. They are an exploration of time, but also of colours in terms of their transmittance and reflectance spectra and the overlap between them. Each set captures a unique moment in time, held in stasis on paper during my ongoing journey through colour, light and time.
Hours – ‘Alternate Time Zones’ and ‘Daylight Finds Darkness’
Within the new collection of works in the Hours series we can see the smooth and seamless gradation of light and colour. The depth of colour is of course relative to the amount of time the light has been exposed to the paper in the darkroom. I have been building various robotics since 2017 (first used in the Continuum series, 2017) to assist with the exposing of selected areas of the photosensitive paper during the exposure, the results are deep, dark hues where the light has reached the paper for the full hour contrasted with bright areas where the light was only exposed fleetingly for seconds or minutes to create mesmerising studies of light, time and colour.
Minutes – ‘Chroma’
This set of 6 interconnected works is created entirely in my pitch-black darkroom. These studies of blocks of time and intensity of colour are the result of months spent resolving ways to overlap the intensity of light and depth of colour to work through the chromatic scale. The set of 6 photographic prints is available in an edition of only 25 with limited numbers of each individual print within this.
Seconds - ‘As Above, So Below’ and ‘Nine Steps’
These two pieces are created using exposure times of just fractions of seconds during which I rapidly mask light and apply coloured filters in between the light and the paper. These explorations performed in complete darkness result in unique flashes of captured colour as I trace light on to the paper, using masking techniques to allow varying degrees of exposure and colour saturation. The two pieces are
All these works will be showing with Gas Gallery on Stand D11 in the Discovery zone at Photo London 2021 and will be available to order at the show and online from 6 September 2021
