I dedicated the month of August to produce and deliver the pieces and workshops that were sold through the ticket to Tokyo campaign. This crowdfunding project aimed to raise £900 to help me to work with the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo in alternative photography related projects. This was an opportunity for me to expand my network and connect with the alternative photography community in Japan. There were many cost involved such as travel, accommodation, subsistence and materials and the museum funded many of them but I needed to complement their budget. At the end of the campaign £1,690 were raised of £900 (initial target) from 26 backers.
This July I have been in residency at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo (Japan) delivering a series of talks and photography workshops as part of the museum’s education and outreach programme. The residency programme was designed as experimental gallery sessions where participants were introduced to a range of early photographic processes in relation to the museum Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition.
Fantasy High Street & Team London Bridge commissioned me to produce a site specific outdoors installation responding to the theme Revealed, the piece needed to integrate nature within a urban environment.
Photogramming Nature is an interaction between photography and nature, a home for silhouettes and beautiful flower, plant and leaf outlines. Created using the early photographic cyanotype process, the silhouettes are recorded directly on the greenhouse panels through contact printing and exposure to natural UV light.
The piece was installed in Potters Field Park for the launch of Revealed Festival and it is now permanently installed in White Grounds, London Bridge.
Credit: Jonathon Vines
Image credits: Jonathon Vines & Marcelo Deguchi
June 2016 has been a very busy month. I have been teaching wet plate collodion for the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, as well as Van Dyke Brown and photographic emulsion at the University of the Arts London.
