'What's Left Behind'

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. Using Black and white Paper and placing it in the landscape this work explores the interaction of light and phenomena to allow a photograph to transpire, and perception and vision to occur. By allowing the phenomena to create the image the sensitive paper became a record of unseen natural forces, suggesting the way photography records the world through touch, duration and its sensitivity to light. The colours created were properties of the emulsion in certain papers, something I could never envision, spoke of the chance elements within the traditional medium and revealed the structures of that particular paper at holding an image.