Embodied Landscapes

© Ana Garrido - It was exposed for 30 minutes in a direct positive paper (2023). I am in the centre of the photo, converted in a white spot.

© Ana Garrido - It was exposed for 35 minutes in a direct positive paper (2023).I am in the centre of the photo, converted in a white spot.

© Ana Garrido - Image from the Embodied Landscapes photography project

Dates

2023 - Ongoing
Author

Ana Garrido
Locations London, United Kingdom, Flimwell

If I'm not visible in the photograph, can I still say I am in it? Collection of photographs taken with a pair of pinhole cameras. They were part of my graduation thesis, where I explored the connections between landscape, body and time.

Pinhole camera photos made from tin biscuit boxes. The results were obtained within different exposure times (specified on the caption of each image) on direct positive paper.

It was exposed for 30 minutes in a direct positive paper (2023). I am in the centre of the photo, converted in a white spot.

It was exposed for 35 minutes in a direct positive paper (2023).I am in the centre of the photo, converted in a white spot.

It was exposed for 18 hours (overnight) in a direct positive paper (2023). My presence was so brief that I was completely gone from the final result.

It was exposed for 1 hour and 20 minutes in a direct positive paper (2023). I expected to find myself visible, considering this was just over an hour. This leads me to question: if I am not visible in the final result, can I say I am in it?

It was exposed for 5 minutes in a direct positive paper (2023). Although I was in the space the whole time, there were no traces of me or the cars passing by in the result.

It was exposed for 1 hour and 20 minutes in a direct positive paper (2023). No traces of myself again.

It was exposed for 18 hours (overnight) in a direct positive paper (2023). My presence was so brief that I was completely gone from the final result.

Embodied Landscapes by Ana Garrido

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