Less Camera

Susan Derges is an international recognised photographic artist, most often working with natural landscape. She first trained as a painter, expressing an early interest in abstraction. Many of Derge’s works are produced by camera less photogram methods, producing unique one to one scale images. She tuned to camera less photography after experiencing frustration at the way “ the camera always separates the subject from the viewer”. She breaks from a linear chronology to embrace a more intuitive, aesthetic, cyclical and interconnected interpretation. The images produced from degree in 25 years of carrier, follows an alchemical chain of transformative reaction of the 4 elements ( the earth elements ). The result reached by the photographer is a unremarkable set of investigations in many levels, scientific, psychological and spiritual . Derge’s working methods have changed over the years, using both camera-less and camera made photography. On the series “the river taw”, she had to carry the large sheet of photographic paper across the beach in a light tight box. By the light on the moon, and the warmer emotions from shoreline towns, she observed the rhythm of the waves. Each wave creates a different pattern outlined in the moonlight by the foam of water, while waiting for the night waves she illuminated the scene for a millisecond. She created these beautiful art works using the oldest elements of our earth developing beautiful projects fixed by the alchemy of darkness, light and water.

Elemental, Susan Derges
VA museum Exibition
http://vodpod.com/watch/4868319-susan-derges-victoria-and-albert-museum