Tag: Ilford HP5
Never Any Clouds 13
Globes. Winter. Fog.Sewanee, TN. December, 2007. Scanned image from 11×14 negative (I hope to post a scan here from palladium-platinum print soon) Almost done with this didactic traipse. What is obscured the moment we see; obscured by being seen? And the corollary, how then do we consider the obscured? I think obscurity can be accessed by […]
Frond
Frond outside Pinchinat’s House. Cange, Haiti. January, 2008 I saw this hanging off a tree near a friend’s house – I’ve made several portraits of Mr. Pinchinat, and the ‘Hanging – Floating‘ photographs of his grandchildren. This photograph was taken in the same location. For me, it strengthens the argument for photographic seeing as being more […]
Nine Pines
Nine Pines. Near Les Cayes, Haiti. 2008 I wanted to be by the sea at sunset. A balmy breeze silked through these (Hispaniolian?) pines. Later, I found out that this particular type of native pine survives in very shallow, infertile soil because of a symbiotic relationship with a fungus. Which, to some extent, seemed […]
Throwing Stones
Boy Throwing Stones. Zanmi Lasante, Cange. Haiti. 2007 Before sunrise, just throwing stones as far out as he could, from a hilltop. Stone after stone. Hasselblad 500C/M, 80mm Planar lens, Ilford HP5 film, processed in Pyro PMK
Hanging Floating
Hanging, Floating (Auget Jean Calou and Marichelie Josef). Cange, Haiti. January, 2008 Auget and Marichelie hanging from a rafter, with their cousin in the background, echoing my act of taking a photograph. A photographer considers not simply the formal relationship between light and dark, but also and always how light and dark allude to what we do […]
Concrete and Roots
Concrete destroying roots destroying concrete. Cange, Haiti. 2008 Zanmi Lasante (ZL), prior to Goudougoudou (the Kreyol name for the big earthquake of 2010), was much like this – organized, neat, cement-slab constructions containing and making a crucible from Haiti’s painful history. It was full of promise. The earthquake came, and despite the solid, well-engineered fabrication […]