'Here, now' The medium of Photography has changed considerably due to the arrival of digital technology. The materials that were once rich and wide spread are now considered obsolete. With the closure of darkrooms, photo labs and the production of film and chemistry, photography is no longer a material medium. This work explores this notion in a hope to find out what a photograph is? What photography means? And what is special about the materials that have been the foundation of the medium until recent times. For this series, I made my van into a camera obscura, one of the most primitive forms of photography and used long strips of photographic paper that photographic labs would have used, to make a direct impression referencing the indexical nature of photography, and its bond with reality through light. The material records what is placed before it, in negative, creating an abstract image that references the beginning of photography and properties inherent in the medium itself.
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