DIMSDALE, Edward - Stilled

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"Edward DIMSDALE is a master printmaker who over the past three decades has explored and adapted historical methods of photographic print making to produce breathtakingly beautiful, emotionally charged photographs. The out-of-print photo publication 'Stilled' shares something with the Haiku, which often presents three elements: something permanent, something ephemeral, and what happens in the moment when they come together.
The starting point for his analogue prints is often something very simple, a detail, a moment, a gesture. It could be as particular as a glance from a trainee Geisha or the barren branches of a tree against a winter sky. Once in the darkroom, Edward DIMSDALE undertakes a complex procedure to try to recapture something of the sensation he felt while making the photograph. From a film negative, he makes a series of paper inter-negatives, a technique that degrades certain aspects of the image, whilst enhancing others — a contemporary refinement of a historical method, rather like photocopying a photocopy." (© Stanley/Barker, 2017')

About British photo artist Edward DIMSDALE

Photo books and publications by Edward DIMSDALE