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
Fragments - Transmission Series -
Photographs printed onto glass magnifying lenses 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.
Photographs printed onto glass magnifying lenses using traditional darkroom techniques
Photographs printed onto glass magnifying lenses using traditional darkroom techniques
Photographs printed onto glass magnifying lenses using traditional darkroom techniques
Photographs printed onto glass magnifying lenses using traditional darkroom techniques