Zoom in Please / 2024
24 x 24 inch each
Archival inkjet prints mounted to aluminium, framed
Zoom in Please is a series coming from the darkroom about analogue photography practice. It is only possible to do black and white developing and tray printing in majority darkrooms today, for safety and cost reasons. However, going against the rules of those traditional processes can make it possible to achieve color on black and white paper. But only under one condition–not being able to use the fixing chemistry which locks the image in. The photograph continues living on its own, as it continues to process and becomes exposed at some point in time. What makes it intriguing is what eventually destroys it at some point.
Scanning is therefore an important photographic practice in this process. Cardboard paper, a material usually used for utility purposes, appears under the expensive precious light sensitive paper, pointing out the elite tendencies of the analogue photography practice and its history. I believe analogue photography can be used radically as any other art medium, and can be shifted and accommodated to different ideas. The same idea applies to the scanning practice, which is often undervalued in photographic work. In this work, the digital and analogue come together to enlarge and show what would otherwise be lost, defining an important principle of photography.
