Botanical Studies: A Series of Photograms

BOTANICAL STUDIES:
A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAMS

This series of work has been featured on the Cover of Black and White Magazine (view article), an Internationally distributed publication for Collectors of Fine Photography.

My photograms convey the essence of their subjects through opacity, transparency and translucence. Rather than providing an exacting representation of the subject matter, I focus on isolation and beauty in the curve of a line, the shift of a grade and the composition of the form. A stunning elegance is created through the tension between the concrete and the abstract, between the subject matter and pure light.

In the tradition of Surrealism and Constructivism, photograms dispel illusions and change linear context. Man Ray’s cameraless Rayographs combined seemingly unrelated objects in both random and arranged compositions. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, also working at the time, experimented with Photogrammes of isolated forms. Both artists sought to explore the “pure” actions of light.

In the Photogram process no camera or film is used. Instead light passes directly through the subject material, bending and curving, reflecting and refracting. The results are thought provoking and elegant and inspiring.

Each botanical photogram is printed and processed by hand and selenium toned by the artist to fine art archival standards. Intrinsic to the photogram process, each image is original, unique and one-of-a-kind.


My photograms convey the essence of their subjects through opacity, transparency and translucence. Rather than providing an exacting representation of the subject matter, I focus on isolation and beauty in the curve of a line, the shift of a grade and the composition of the form. A stunning elegance is created through the tension between the concrete and the abstract, between the subject matter and pure light.


In the tradition of Surrealism and Constructivism, photograms dispel illusions and change linear context. Man Ray’s cameraless Rayographs combined seemingly unrelated objects in both random and arranged compositions. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, also working at the time, experimented with Photogrammes of isolated forms. Both artists sought to explore the “pure” actions of light.


In the Photogram process no camera or film is used. Instead light passes directly through the subject material, bending and curving, reflecting and refracting. The results are thought provoking and elegant and inspiring.
Each botanical photogram is printed and processed by hand and selenium toned by the artist to fine art archival standards. Intrinsic to the photogram process, each image is original, unique and one-of-a-kind.