Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Ideas: Negative Weathering

I would like nature to have a direct impact on my work. I don't want to just photograph forces of nature, but let nature influence my work, nature can be unpredictable, and I would like my work to reflect that.

An idea I have had is to take some photographs, landscape ones, using a 35mm camera. Once I have processed the negatives I would like to weather them, leave them in the wind, rain and the cold. Expose some to elements, for example, fire; gently burn negative, water; flick water onto them before exposing the image, and gently damage them with earth; run earth onto them, so they become dirty, and slightly scratched.

Once the weathering has taken place on the negatives, expose images from them and see what the results are. I may expose images before weathering process to compare the degree of impact the weathering has caused.