Jo Bradford

Whereas yesterday’s post feels like fresh spring greens, today it’s warmth and sunshine feels for me. Chroma: Orange to Yellow. (Light on paper. Cameraless photogram). From a series of 6 analogue darkroom prints spanning the colour spectrum. For more info check out @gasgallery

Chroma: Yellow to Green. (Light on paper. Cameraless photogram). From a series of 6 analogue darkroom prints spanning the colour spectrum. For more info check out @gasgallery

More of my cameraless photographs on c-type paper and instant film that are being shown at @photolondonfair this week. Two exposures made over hours (on the left) and two framed sets of cameraless prints made on instant film in exposures of just fractions of a second (on the right). If you’re there, find it at all and more besides with @gasgallery at D11 in the discovery section.

Repost from @gasgallery Meet the Artist Jo Bradford, master of the cameraless photography process - photographing light and colour itself... ⁣ We are showing 3 new collections of Jo's work @photolondonfair this coming week under the titles of 'Hours, Minutes, Seconds' - in direct reference to the amount of time light is exposed to paper to create the works. Jo will be at the show on Wednesday 8th September - please join us at Booth D11 in the Discovery Zone to meet her. ⁣ ⁣ Jo says: "Although my work seems to have no object and seemingly no subject in fact, light is the subject, colour is the subject, and perception is the subject. I like to think about light in terms of its transparency its capacity, its volume, its colour. The length of the exposure, the temporal aspect has meaning, as does the colour changing, the very materiality of the artwork. It is about the perception of colour, it doesn't require a conventional narrative or symbolism. The Impressionists opened the door to the understanding that our perception of reality is dependent on light. For me, light is the reality in itself, requiring no particular reference in the visible world. I hope to immerse the viewer in the visual context of light itself."⁣ ⁣ @jo_bradford⁣ @photolondonfair

Excited to be showing this new work comprised of cameraless instant film prints called “As Above, So Below” amongst many other large and small scale new photographs at @photolondonfair this week at Somerset House. I will be showing with @gasgallery in the Discovery section, booth D11. @_christinewilkinson is going to showing new work too. I will be there to meet people and talk about the work for the VIP day on Wednesday the 8th September, so if you’re at the show come and say hi!

Preparing new work to show with @gasgallery at @photolondonfair in September. Attempting to colour match my gradients to @pantone colours to give @genesis_imaging a head start on the colour proofing for the edition.

ColourStory32. As one colour slips into the next it becomes less of itself and more of its neighbour. These transitions speak to me of loss, of renewed hope and of transformation. This is where the magic of the spectrum exists, and it has drawn me back time and time again, in a bid to capture these gradients and explore the sensations of the pure colour within.

ColourStory31 has been a real labour of love. With 7 columns and 5 rows of individual and unique cameraless prints, each with a very specific colour combination in mind, it has occupied me for many many days. But what a delightful way it was to be occupied!