10 Days and Nights - 10 suspended perspex lenses with back-projected video
The Mediums Glasses I & II - Photographs printed onto old pairs of glasses using traditional darkroom techniques
I was inspired to produce a series of works based on nineteenth century occult and pseudo-scientific documentary photography. During the nineteenth century it was believed that camera technology could capture the spirit world and photographs appearing to show ghosts and a range of occult phenomena were often used as "evidence" for a world that lay beyond what we could see.
Laura Marker
Laura Marker - artist
Laura Marker studied fine art at Wimbledon College of Art (MA 2012) and primarily works as a projection-based installation, photography and digital collage artist. She is heavily influenced by concepts relating to the passage of time, visual “truth” and illusion, human perception and past events or social injustices that still hold relevance today.
Her work makes reference to historical developments in photography, science fiction imagery, historical scientific documentation and the development of new technologies, in particular lens based technologies. She is particularly interested in the ways in which society reacts to these technologies. Historically lens based technologies hold a dual status, associated with scientific truthful observation on the one hand, trickery, fraud and illusion on the other. Magnifying lenses, magic lanterns, photography and the surveillance camera are perceived to have “penetrative” vision. Singling out fragments of time usually too small for human perception to register with the capability to uncover the unseen.