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.
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...
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...
