Eureka – new work

I feel like I’ve reached a new level in terms of how and what I photograph.

Having said that, I thought I’d post a few more images I’ve been working on lately. I will be making intaglio contact prints of them which will be bound into a series of 3 small books (roughly 20-25 prints in each).

I haven’t completely nailed down where I’m going conceptually with this body of work yet, but I have a pretty good idea. It will suffice to say that I’m very excited about it. More on that later.

Work in progress – a taste.

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I’ve been working my way through the last couple boxes of Polaroid Type 55 film, and I’m really happy with the resulting images. Here’s one of them; the rest will be posted once I finish scanning them.

New images

I thought I’d post a few new images that I’ve been working on down here in Tucson. I was somewhat reluctant to make them public without some sort of explanation, but my desire for feedback has overshadowed said reluctance. So I have decided to compromise and precede them with a brief explanation.

The prints are 30″ in the longest dimension, and range from 21″ to 24″ in the other. They are cyanotypes toned in tannic acid, varnished, and tiled together to make the whole image. I’m attempting to take a more meditative approach to capturing scenes that are often overlooked. I want to encourage a slow, intimate dialog between the audience and these spaces through the labor-intensive process of creating the collages. The images were broken up into pieces to provide a more interactive experience for the viewer.

A couple new images

I had some this last weekend fun with my latest acquisition, a Deardorff 5×7. I slapped a 4×5 back on it and cracked open a box of Polaroid Type 55. Here are a couple scans of the negatives.

Update – I should also mention that the bottom image was cropped in-camera, which allowed me to make two exposures on one sheet of film. I’m playing with a few ideas along these lines; this was the first attempt.

First gum print in over a year

Thanks to a little nudge from Jeremy Moore, I’ve started gum printing again. Getting this print was a frustrating yet educational experience. It took me a while to realize that I was over-exposing my cyanotype layer, but once I figured that out it all went fairly smoothly.

I’ll be putting a few gum prints of this image up for sale through my blog over the next week or so. Stay tuned.

Update 5/20: My second attempt proved to be much more successful.

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Choose a print size:

8″x10″ Print $20.00 20″x24″ Print $50.00

Or, click here to download the 4″x5″ @ 300 dpi TIFF.

N 45.68886, W 111.07502. March 20, 2009 by Camden Hardy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Surveys

I’ve been hard at work on a project I’m calling Surveys. It’s along the same lines as the Phoenix Transect project, where I’m setting out to create a visual document of my surroundings with color 4×5 negatives. Since I’ll be moving to Arizona in July of this year, the idea of documenting my environment has become important to me. My hope is come back to Bozeman from time to time and rephotograph these places to see how they change over time. Here are a few of the images.

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N45.67584, W111.05180. February 6, 2009

Choose a print size:

8″x10″ Print $20.00 20″x24″ $50.00

Or, click here to download the 4″x5″ @ 300 dpi TIFF.

N45.67584, W111.05180. February 6, 2009. by Camden Hardy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.