Tag: 8×10 negative

• Scar, The Thinning Veil

  

  Scar, The Thinning Veilnear Tarime, Tanzania, 2017Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negativePrinted 201810″x 8″ Vulvic cupule and trees, at a sacred site used for initiation and other ceremonies, on Susuni Mountain, Wanchari clan This is the third image of ‘From Where Loss Comes‘, a photographic series […]

  Pradip Malde

  January 20, 2019

  From Where Loss Comes, Scans from Prints

  8×10 negative, FGM/C, loss, platinum-palladium print, portraits, process, Tanzania

• Photographing Rahel Msagala

  

  Rahel Hezeroni Msagala, at the AFNET offices, with markings on her face that she applied to demonstrate a cutting ceremony, AFNET offices, Dodoma, August, 2017 Raheli’s soft voice, and even more delicate fingers, mapped out the marks on her face, this one for bravery, it made me brave and made the girls brave for what […]

  Pradip Malde

  January 14, 2019

  From Where Loss Comes, Scans from Prints

  8×10 negative, FGM/C, loss, platinum-palladium print, portraits, process, Tanzania

• Swirling in from Vapor

  

  2. Swirling in from Vapor, Mbalawala, near Dodoma, Tanzania, 2017Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negativePrinted 201810″x8″ Rahel Hezeroni Msagala, a former ngariba who is now an anti-FGM/C activist and bringing communities in her area to abandon or supplant the practice. This is the second image of ‘From […]

  Pradip Malde

  January 12, 2019

  From Where Loss Comes, portraits, Scans from Prints

  8×10 negative, FGM/C, loss, platinum-palladium print, portraits, process, Tanzania

• Photographing Julia Kalungwama I

  

  Passing By the Circle presented some technical challenges during the exposure, the processing and the printing. We were working in a very small space – Julia’s front room of her home is about 6 x 10 feet, and the only source of light is from the front door, visible in the upper photograph here. The […]

  Pradip Malde

  January 10, 2019

  From Where Loss Comes, Scans from Prints

  8×10 negative, FGM/C, loss, platinum-palladium print, portraits, process, Tanzania

• Passing By The Circle

  

  Another post about the making of this photograph Certainty. We lean into it and against it. Glancing and gazing at each other, our eyes seek other eyes, as signals of agreement and confirmation, as unspoken bonds. We look for certainty. In you, I see me. And so, life passes from person to person. Traditions. Look. […]

  Pradip Malde

  January 9, 2019

  From Where Loss Comes, Scans from Prints

  8×10 negative, FGM/C, palladium, platinum, portraits, Tanzania

• Dead Flowers in Glass – Alchemical Windows

  

  Dead Flowers in Glass, Beriedale, Orkney, 1984. (Printed 1985) Platinum-palladium print on 100% cellulose paper (Van Gelder simili Japon) from original 18×24 cm negative. This print was shown in my first solo exhibition in 1984, curated by Tessa Jackson, then director of Collins Gallery at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. I will always be indebted to her […]

  Pradip Malde

  December 12, 2017

  Alchemical Windows, Scans from Prints

  8×10 negative, platinum-palladium print