Gamma 2003-4
Gamma is the reverse of Glowing and constitutes twelve tiny black and white hand printed and toned photographs. I wanted to create a sinister, post-apocalyptic, irradiated scene; as if objects from outer space had landed, settled and taken over the world, having leached all the colour out of it. I wanted to convey a darkness but utilising the opposite language - so a super-brightness that is harmful, as if looking into the sun; a cold tone to the printing that somehow suggests heat. The scale was again important. I wanted to provoke a monumental sense to the images despite their being small. This series was about opposites; each visual sign pointing to and signifying its opposite.