Viva Brighton April 2015 Issue #26

its and bobs
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miniclicks
Three photographers who deal with abstraction have been
invited to The Old Market (27th April, 7pm start) by Viva’s Jim
Stephenson, in his long-running Miniclicks series, to give illustrated
talks explaining their philosophy. London-based Dafna
Talmor deals with ‘Constructed Landscapes’, creating C-type
prints made of collages and montages of colour negatives. Different
natural scenes are juxtaposed; sometimes there’s a gap of
blackness, as if the earth has cracked. Man-made constructions
are notable by their absence: there’s an ancient, almost primeval
look to things. Brighton University-educated Esme Horne,
meanwhile, is interested in the process of photography: ‘Working
in the darkroom,’ explains Jim, ‘she encourages the chance
aspect of engaging with the simple elements of light, a lens
and photographic paper’. The results are colourful, and rather
delicately beautiful. Finally Lucia Pizzani has been experimenting
with ferrotypes – a Victorian method of exposing collodion
emulsified plates to light (see above); she’ll explain her methodology and the philosophy behind it.
FOUR-LINE POEM: ‘Land’ by Leon Freeman
what ties the sky, sea to sand
who bore our fruits, on whom we stand
impoverished now with tin cans and rubber wrist bands.
Where were you when they branded our land?
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