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Star Field Leat
21 January 2008
unique dye destruction print, dry-mounted onto aluminium
166 x 59 cm print size
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Susan Derges
Susan Derges trained as a painter before turning to photography, and in particular to the cameraless photography for which she, along with contemporaries such as Adam Fuss and Garry Fabian Miller, has become internationally renowned. This simple, elegant process was used in very early photography and, in essence, allows the artist to fix shadows onto light sensitive paper. Removing the camera allows an almost alchemical transformation, to extraordinary and powerful effect.
Much of Derges's recent work has been made at night in the open air; using the natural world as her darkroom she has quite literally invented a new way of making pictures. In her newest series, Derges has tracked the night sky with a camera and returned to the darkroom to combine camera based and camera-less techniques that result in images that are at once recognisable, and yet not quite what they seem.
Susan Derges has work in museums and public collections all over the world, including the Hara Art Museum, Tokyo, MOMA in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She is one of three artists that have been chosen for a major survey on cameraless photography, Shadow Catchers at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2010. She will also take part in the project Coast at the Zuiderzee Museum in the Netherlands in 2010/11.
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