In our final week of the @landings_collective takeover of @falmouthphotographyonline, we start with a cross-cluster post that showcases the ways in which Landings artists are weaving together a variety of digital and analogue photographic methods to explore ideas, as we intersect past and present technologies, challenging ourselves to follow a more sustainable path into our future practice.
Gayle Hallowell
“Lichen are simply incredible! Beautiful to look at and useful bioindicators of ecosystem health . They are hybrid colonies of algae or Cyanobacteria living symbiotically with fungal filaments, yeasts and bacteria. On my favourite weekend dog walk, there is a fallen tree teeming with a variety of lichen and ferns from where this picture was taken. This is a cyanotype of a photograph that is coloured with coffee and red rose petals and a little magic to achieve the final result in photoshop. Images of the natural world lend themselves so well to production of images using alternative photographies.”
Gail Ashton
I am fascinated by the processes of heat, light and time; not only in photographic techniques but in the natural world. The two come together perfectly through the cyanotype process, in which you can physically see the effects of process in a way that is masked by digital methods.
Alistair Crane
“This cyanotype uses techniques from a pre-Photoshop era where type and halftones on film layers were used to build up images using a Photo-Mechanical Transfer (PMT) machine.”
Linda Jarrett
Cementing Destruction is a project in which Linda has formulated her own developing chemistry that incorporates the materials that she is shooting; a mix of New Zealand’s native plants and cement dust embed her subject into artefact.
John Hodgson
“Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.” (Roland Barthes).
