Case StudySusan Derges

Susan Derges uses camera-less photographic processes—often working in the landscape.

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Tide Pool 39.

© Susan Derges, 2015

I‘VE NEVER REALLY CONSIDERED myself as doing research. My ideas usually require me to find a very particular way of making that embeds the ideas within it. An example of this was the River Taw photograms.

The ideas behind the project were about becoming close to the element of the river, as a metaphor of immersion and participation. I was looking to be part of it and so the process that I adopted for making that work was to actually immerse the photographic paper in the riverbed, in the flow of the ...

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