Susan Derges - Photograms
Susan Derges is best known for her pioneering technique of capturing the movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly into rivers or shorelines. Recently she has begun working in the studio combining analog and digital techniques to create new forms and perspective hitherto impossible to capture.
Artist Analysis
The images from Susan Derges Photogram series are landscape and portrait images of reflections through water. The series being called photograms changes the way we see the image as this image was made without a camera and using light sensitive paper. The theme is waves and reflections in the waves.
The photograms are all blue in colour, with black/shadow like silhouettes of plants and trees. The images appear to be high in contrast, this allows the shadows of the plants to stand out against the blue, however they blend in nicely.
The images are layered with the effect that they are taken this way, the images in her series also look very textured as they are made using water ripples and this effect is portrayed throughout all of her images.
As her pictures are made using light sensitive paper, the images have to be layered in order to make the images look this way.
The photograms are all blue in colour, with black/shadow like silhouettes of plants and trees. The images appear to be high in contrast, this allows the shadows of the plants to stand out against the blue, however they blend in nicely.
The images are layered with the effect that they are taken this way, the images in her series also look very textured as they are made using water ripples and this effect is portrayed throughout all of her images.
As her pictures are made using light sensitive paper, the images have to be layered in order to make the images look this way.