So, to start off, I’m a lifelong film guy. Sure, I also make digital photographs like everybody else. But when it comes to art photographs, I’m a film guy. We are all unavoidably imprinted by our 1st love. My time and circumstances dropped me into the heyday of 35mm film. After decades in the darkroom, I now follow a hybrid practice of recording my images on film and outputting onto digital media.
I still enjoy the physical tasks of film. I like practicing the care and skill required where there are no do-overs. Every decision counts, just like in life.
A significant portion of my mature work departs from the single frame. My work utilizes sequencing, montage, manipulating time and light. For most of my work over the last 40 + years, I’ve tried to create images that explore comparison, juxtaposition and collision. All multiple overlapping exposures and adjacency are shot contiguously in camera. Color and grain come from chemistry. The prints are unedited faithful representations of the negatives.
And of course, I also have projects made up of collections of single images as well.
Click on an image to view that specific portfolio.
I still enjoy the physical tasks of film. I like practicing the care and skill required where there are no do-overs. Every decision counts, just like in life.
A significant portion of my mature work departs from the single frame. My work utilizes sequencing, montage, manipulating time and light. For most of my work over the last 40 + years, I’ve tried to create images that explore comparison, juxtaposition and collision. All multiple overlapping exposures and adjacency are shot contiguously in camera. Color and grain come from chemistry. The prints are unedited faithful representations of the negatives.
And of course, I also have projects made up of collections of single images as well.
Click on an image to view that specific portfolio.
© Rob Kangas Photography