ENTRY DESCRIPTION
For this image,I investigate the much understood notion of traditional photographs to be the representation of reality. Interested in how analog photography which is most associated with this type of reading, can wrest itself from iconography into complexities inhered in material(film / negatives ). I executed this image(part of a series) by taking self portrait with analog camera,developed the film's and later subjected the negatives to acidic chemical processes and conditionings through time.The processes transition the image from its dependence on pictorial mise-en-scene into realms of arbitrary stains, with some ghost of the camera image still lurking in the new image.
At the core of the processes I explore the claim about the medium asking;What is a photograph, and what can it become? How can the image be experienced as immanent material, something beyond the documentary or representation of literal reality?

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