You Will Be Able To Take Great By The End Of This Book by Benedict Brain

Author:Benedict Brain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Octopus
Published: 2023-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

‘Untitled’ from the series the eyes, the ears, 2005.

SUSAN DERGES

(b.1955)

I can still remember the first time I came across a Susan Derges print in the flesh – it was an awe-inspiring, revelatory moment. It was a massive photogram of the River Taw in Devon, UK. A photogram is essentially a camera-less image, typically made by placing an object on a sheet of light-sensitive paper and exposing it to light. In this case, Derges had submerged (in the complete darkness of night) a large sheet of light-sensitive paper into the river and made a fast exposure using a flashlight, which artfully captured all the shapes and patterns made by the moving water.

Like each of the photographers showcased here, Derges’s work transcends the technical aspects and, in this instance, is more concerned with how the water can be a metaphor for other aspects of our world beyond what is visible; she is exploring ideas about what underlies the visible.

I later saw more of Derges’s work in one of the best photography exhibitions I’ve ever seen: Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her images were shown alongside other practitioners in camera-less photography such as Pierre Cordier, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neusüss, all of whom are inspiring and worthy of further enquiry.

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