Samsas Shadow
For my work scholarship from the Dormagen Guffanti Foundation, I developed a project with the residents of the center for the disabled that consisted of the photographic printing process cyanotype and classic, analogue photographs. The residents were able to “take a picture” of their surroundings themselves with the help of an easy-to-use film camera. Cyanotypes are photograms in which a carrier material (e.g. paper) is exposed directly using a contact process, without the use of a camera. The works produced using one of the oldest photographic techniques thus depict their own creation process on the surface. The process is based on the most basic elements of photography: an object, light and light-sensitive material. The process can only be controlled to a certain extent, the result depends on the duration of the exposure, the type and amount of UV light and the concentration of the chemical substances. Every print is a surprise, a mystery, unique.
