About Alternative Process
Demons in the Dark
—Demons in the Dark is a series of photographs that expands on the dark places of the human mind—fixating on the thought that someone might be watching you, the time that you saw something out of the corner of your eye, or the feeling you get when you are walking alone that someone might be following you. This series visually expresses feelings of fear, anxiety and caution creating an uneasiness as if that presence has truly been there watching and waiting all along.
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The series was made using a self-built camera obscura to further encapsulate the viewer. By blurring solid lines and adding motion to distort the images, it fogs the viewer’s mind by reducing the level of detail. The circular format to the edges of the images make it seem as if the viewer is looking into a peephole or seeing through to another realm. It adds a dreamlike quality, making the imagery appear nightmarish and blurring the lines between reality and myth; allowing the photographs to come to life.
Pinhole Photography
—Pinhole Photography was my first step into photographic experimentation. Eventually it lead me to building my own Camera Obscura that could hold up to 16x20 paper negatives or film.
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What I truly enjoy about pinhole photography is the way it experiences life happening before it within a period of time and collects all of it into a single image. the variety of depth of field that could go from infinitely large to increadily shallow as long as its set correctly. But ultimately I enjoy the customizations and experimentations that pinhole photography has led me to find.
Lumen Prints
—The process of Lumen Prints was one of the very first ways of photography. It consisted of using a light sensitive material placed over an object like paper. Then placing another slightly transparent object on top of that like a leaf, and setting it outside in the sun to expose and develop.
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For my Lumen Print series I used different types of fruits, berrys, and mellons to see the effects of not only the juices on top of the photo paper to producing different colors but to also see the different patterns and designs within each object.