“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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are you beginning to struggle to lay your hands on film?
my photo lab has closed [cape town] – i’m devastated by this!
most of my life I’ve been using e6 process but i switched to digital
small format bottom of the range
i think it’s time for me to kiss ‘old’ technology good by i don’t want to but i haven’t used film in my stills cameras for ages.
sure, some films gets away, Polaroid is gone, 4×5 color film is rare, still d76 and c41 is still easy to buy film and develop, developing c41 yourself most be pretty expensive though
I’m in Montreal so i guess its still easy in major cities, and I’m not ready to kiss goodbye, thanks for the comment hoh