Work in progress

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10 x 8 silver gelatin prints, Ilford RC semi gloss  

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Browsing amateur images online is an obscure hobby (or is it). Sellers on this site describe high-quality lab-produced photographic reproductions. Often the promise of these results is far from what is found. The print that makes its way to you could never replicate the richness of the screen, sometimes the real thing just cannot live up. 

 

The digital watermarks serve their protective function, virtually layered as a separate entity. When these images have been so numerously viewed the two become one and the same - seamlessly attached. Is a watermark a symbol we are so accustomed to that we can see right through them? Even when told ‘this text will not be on your photo’, what happens if you are then disappointed that it is not.​ 

 

This work considers what things can look like when we isolate them in their interim state, considering which is the original or the copy.