Detroit Dream House
Another image from my new distressed negs/transparencies series. It seemed fitting to set fire to a negative of an abandoned home in Detroit's Highland Park.
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devil’s night hotel
Inspired by the damage of my film by a lab last fall, I have been distressing my negatives and transparencies with fire, combustible liquids, cleaning solvents and the like. It's been years since I have literally destroyed my work and it's liberating. Although some of the processes I am using create images that are more the results of chance than technique(s), the images I am choosing and the...
when the lab ruins your film, make art
Highland Park, a street revisited/the last house on the left, 2013 In September last year I took my film to a new lab because the lab I had been using (for the last decade), weren't keeping their chemicals fresh and my transparencies were coming back under bleached/opaque. Of course I had just been to Detroit to shoot and most of the film from that trip has emulsion peeled...
It’s always Christmas in Detroit
The blight of Detroit, it is a photographers visual playground. The city despite feeling deserted, dirty and very dark at night (in some areas), is absolutely gorgeous. It boasts one of the largest surviving collections of late 19th and 20th century buildings : Art Deco Skyscrapers, Neo-Renaissance hotels, Romanesque churches, Gothic Revival designs as well as Contemporary, Modern and Post Modern structures. There was a lot of money...