Baryt 2.57

In Baryt 2.57, I focus on the production processes of analogue black-and-white photography and make them the subject of a photographic work. The darkroom becomes the place of taking and producing photographs at the same time. The tools, machines, utensils and, last but not least, chemicals flow into the photographic images, as do my personal objects. The otherwise invisible steps and processes that underlie the production of every analogue photograph are made visible. Latent intermediate results of darkroom work, such as film negatives or test strips, are thematised in the photographic image itself and provide an insight behind the scenes of the image production. Direct physical contact with the light-sensitive materials creates marks, traces and shadows that are inscribed in the photographs and reveal the close dialogue with photography that can take place in the darkroom.

Especially today, against the backdrop of increasingly automated and opaque image production, I use analogue processes to produce motifs that always convey their production context, making photography perceptible as a medium.