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037 05 March 2004

Using silver materials to make photographs, my aesthetic seemed grounded in the crafting of images over time. Beginning with exposure and creation of the latent image and it's subsequent revelation by chemical processing. In reality I have always chosen machine processing for my exposed film, so a digital instrument simply speeds up the feedback. Let's not fall into Emersonian trap of thinking that science has no place in art, a controlled technique can be taught, art has to be discovered.

Using a digital instrument I feel I am simply recording and not crafting, an unfamiliarity with how a digital camera records is part of it, the particular qualities (aesthetic) of a digital image are different. Yet I can also remember when I first began photography, there were times when in frustration I would declare that "I am simply recording a scene". Only later did I realise that this was enough.

Day by day the technical limitations of my consumer camera become more appparent - of how I can not show you a beautiful moon seen last week, But I would maintain that a good photographer can make good photographs with very simple kit, so I am not offering the instrument's limitations as an excuse.

liverpool 2004

 

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