The four colour carbon transfers in the exhibition use brass as the base to the images. The beauty of Vietnam and Cambodia is captured in colour giving nuances of texture and tonality. They have a rich topographies with minute details and subtlety up close.
The photograph are created from four negatives to create a positive on brass plates using with carbon transfer process. Following exposure and development, the back of the plate is coated with gold pigment creating a gold-toned image.
The carbon transfer is a beautiful historic photographic processes which rely on the ability of potassium dichromate to harden gelatin when exposed to ultra violet light. The process was first invented in 1855 by Louis Alphonse Poitevin Poitevin produced monochrome prints made with carbon black pigment. This gave the process its name.
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