Chemistry of Chance


Pigment inkjet prints

These images were made by the chance interaction of chemicals, water, air and time. Black & white prints recovered from darkroom rubbish bins reveal the beauty of analogue photography’s photo-chemical materials.

The colours and swirling patterns are the product of alchemical events occuring in the silver emulsions as they lay in the dark awaiting discovery. Rejected prints discarded by impatient students become the chance compositions of abstract photography.

Chemistry of Chance Exhibition


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Chemistry of Chance