Forest Re-Photographed

4x5 film, 2019

This landscape/still life hybrid utilized three modes of image capturing which, when flattened onto a single image plane, creates a break down of the viewers relationship with the subject. The original image was a 35mm colour film exposure of a forest landscape, which was then enlarged and manipulated digitally so that it could be printed in sections, reassembled, and rephotographed. The final photograph was taken on a large format camera, utilizing its resolution potential to create an image that could be produced large scale with the details of the image’s production seams fully preserved. What initially appears to be an abstracted forest reveals itself to be an image of fifty printed papers tapped together, prompting the viewer to consider the camera’s subjectivity and the way in which the world around them is projected and perceived.