Ways to See in the Darkness

Unique photographic print using 19C and experimental photographic processes.  Gum Bichromate (gomma bichromata) over Cyanotype (cianotipia) printed on handmade cotton rag watercolour paper.

Venice at night returns to itself--a place of magic and mystery.

I particularly like working with multiple exposure as a way of recording the passage of time in a single image. These images are not digitally manipulated, they are done in camera. The unpredictability of this method suits me, as the objects and people in the images become important players in the final outcome. The art for me is to produce a photograph that shows what my imagination sees, is rich in memory and tells a story—an image that the viewer then processes through their own senses, making it a different image for everyone who looks at it. The art for me is to produce a photograph that has magic and emotion and shows what I saw as a remembered moment and always tells a story.