“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 fifth attempt, the cutting was simple, simple as hell, i moved one piece, that’s it. The major modification is around the character. The one on the left is a madman yelling with scratched triangles and one the right we have Jesus. Very religious portrait, like the man on the image I guess.
Digital reproduction from a silver gelatin print.
11 x 14 po Ilford Multigrade IV FB Glossy Paper.
Cut Kodak 400TX negative, stitched with adhesive tape.
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