Wednesday 27 April 2016

Images Made by Literally Weaving Two Prints Together

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In some sense, you could call photographer Jason Chen‘s latest work multiple exposures. Except that, instead of capturing two images on a single frame of film, he’s literally weaving together two prints in a fascinating exploration of “time, movement, process, and mutation.”

These weaved portraits—archival pigment prints that are cut and woven together by hand—are described at Chen’s Paradigm Gallery + Studio as, “decisive moments that trail off into larger stories.”

Although woven photography is not itself a new idea, this medium is new for Chen, who spent years working with dry plate tintypes. Below is a selection of his woven portraits, some zoomed in, others shown in the frame so you can see what these are like at exhibition:

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To see more Chen’s woven work, visit his page at Paradigm. And if you want to explore the other artwork being shown currently as part of Paradigm Gallery + Studio’s exhibition “Portrait,” click here.


Image credits: Photographs by Jason Chen and used with permission.



from PetaPixel http://petapixel.com/2016/04/27/multiple-exposures-made-literally-weaving-two-prints-together/

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