When vsiting a degree show in Lyon a few years ago, I discovered Mathieu Weil’s work and was immediately astonished by the quality of its execution and by its creative process. We were confronted by these huge paintings of water reflexions and puddles on the pavement that were almost perfectly hyperrealist from a certain distance, but would appear as strong and thick touches of oil paint as we came closer closer. The unstable state of his art, between figuration and abstraction, is really remarkable.
American artist Noah Doely’s time-consuming method of capturing an image using the ancient wet collodion process really pays off when the final photograph is developed.
Every step of the way, from the concept, to the set design, to working with ambrotypes and tintypes, the process is tenuous and unpredictable. But it results in a physical feel to the photograph, one which just can’t be reproduced any other way. My favourite is The Man on The Moon, which explores our fascination and struggle with the unknown.
Dorothea Barth Jörgensen shot by Kai Z Feng for Stockholm S/S A/W
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