Plastics have extended our human abilities in countless ways: for just one example, the vision made possible by contact lenses is simply routine. My sense of being in the world is structured by plastics, as it is by photography. The salt prints in this series are made with the same chemistry as the first positive/negative photographs in 1839, at the dawn of the industrial era. Photography originated in a world of lenses and chemicals, salt and paper, experimentation and new possibilities. Almost two hundred years later, our everyday lives are enmeshed with images, as they are with the avalanche of industrial products that trace their origins back to that moment. We are only beginning to grasp the long-term consequences of this evolution in human perception.
This image: Halophilic 4-2618 (By the Spell of the Invention). Salt print, 5.5” x 7.5”, 2023
Salt print, 8.25” x 10”, 2023
Salt print, 8.25” x 10”, 2023
Salt print, 6” x 7.5”, 2023
Salt print, 6.25” x 8.75”, 2023
Salt print, 6.5” x 7.75”, 2023
Salt print, 6.5” x 9”, 2023
Salt print, 6” x 7.75”, 2023
Salt print, 6.25" x 8.75", 2023
Salt print, 6.5” x 9.5”, 2023
Salt print, 5.5” x 7.5”, 2023