“Body modification was my final project in laboratory class 3, which were about darkroom techniques. I chose to make multiple shot of a same subject and to cut the negative in pieces to stitch them back up, in ways i wanted to, not the ways nature made humans. This work is like a raw version based on one of the technique used by Jean-Paul Goude retouching technique. This shot and all the other shots from this series are done on Kodak 400TX that I developed myself and printed myself on silver gelatin paper.”
With the fourth attempt, I changed the person I worked on, I worked on my good friend Jasmin, he is the one I used on the three last attempt, half the work. With him, I focused on head modification. With this one I took two frames and inverted the eyes and bottom-half of the mouth. That’s it.
Digital reproduction from a silver gelatin print.
8 x 10 po Ilford Multigrade IV RC Satin Paper.
Cut Kodak 400TX negative, stitched with adhesive tape.
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