The Idea of Photography
Fresson print, 30x40 cm
« Like me, the idea behind this discovery first occurred to you in Cagliari. »
Although Nicéphore Niépce took the very first photograph of history in Saint-Loup-de-Varenne near Chalon-sur-Saône, a letter he wrote to his brother Claude on 16 September 1824 reveals that the idea first occurred to him in Cagliari, Sardinia.
The photograph here shows a panoramic view of Cagliari at night. It was taken two hundred and twenty-two years after Nicéphore Niépce’s journey to Sardinia.International Dark Sky Places
Fuji Provia 4x5 sheet film, lightbox, perpex case, 50x60 cm
A series of photographs of coffee machines. The Caffenol process, an alternative photographic development process based on coffee and invented in 1995 at the University of Rochester, was used to develop these photos with the machines’ own coffees.
The photographs are unique images. They were taken on black-and-white direct positive paper with a 4x5 view camera.Astalift
Lambda print on Fujiflex, 40 x 50 cm
Since 2007, Fujifilm have been manufacturing a range of cosmetic products whose design was inspired by research carried out by the company on the antioxidants used to preserve the colours of photographs.
In particular, the development of Astalift’s Jelly Aquarysta, a facial care product, relied on technology employed specifically for the micronisation of a molecule, astaxanthin, in its emulsion form - as used for Fujifilm rolls and photographic papers.
In this portrait, the surfaces of the model’s skin and of the photographic print relate to each other.
A photograph of the sea, taken from the entrance to Saint-Énogat Cave near Dinard and then developed inside the cave, in a place that was sufficiently dark so that daylight would not interfere with the photographic unveiling process.
A photographic laboratory was set up in 1877 in this very cave by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, while they were still teenagers. As the story goes, they became trapped one day when the oncoming sea filled the cave after they had lost track of time. It is at this moment that they promised each other they would work together forever should they manage to get out alive. Subsequently, the first ready-to-use dry photographic plates were marketed under both of their names in 1881. So was Autochrome, an early colour photography process, in 1893.