Photography
Black and white, almost always. Stripped of colour, a scene comes down to what holds it together: light and shadow, texture and contrast, the shapes underneath.
I photograph the natural world, on film and on digital, and carry the work through to the darkroom myself. The process asks for patience, and it gives a particular kind of attention back. Now and then colour is the point, and when it is, I let it be.
The print is where it becomes real. Silver gelatin for traditional black and white, and kallitype, an iron based alternative process toned in gold or palladium, for something with more weight and warmth. A negative is only a score. The print is the performance.
Below, each print develops in the tray