german house

BW SILVER GELATIN PRINT, FIBRE BASED, 2017

selected for the london group open and winner of jpes prize award, 2017

Winner of the London group JPES award. This photograph was taken using a handmade lensless camera the size and shape of a Rubik’s cube, with negatives hand-cut to size before travelling to the Moroccan, western-sahara.

Located in an uncompromising desert landscape, the only two storey structure in its locale. it is a building that sits incongruous; silent, blind and defiant amid the heat.

titled ‘German house’ after the nationality of its architect and owner. a regular visiting entomologist to the area, conducting studies in beetles and other desert insects.

the effects of lensless photography and alternate film developer which were used to process the negative in situ, help to capture a timeless quality. an almost biblical landscape, housing a portal of curious architectural anomaly.