Work details as below at AOP Gallery show.
Stephanie Hoppen Gallery
17 Walton Street London SW3 2HX
+44 (0)20 7589 3678
info@stephaniehoppen.com
www.stephaniehoppen.com
Thursday 29th November - Friday 21st December 2007
Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
The Association of Photographers
AOP 81 Leonard Street London EC2A 4QS U.K.
+44 (0)20 7739 6669
gallery@aophoto.co.uk
www.the-aop.org
Monday 5th - Saturday 10th November 2007
Opening Times: 10am - 6pm Monday - Friday
12pm-4pm Saturday
Preview: Thursday 8.11.2007 6.30 - 8.30
"Horizon: Russian Cameras, Keralan Landscapes"
Jake Polonsky.
Jake Polonsky has been documenting unspoilt landscapes around the world over the last five years with Russian panoramic Horizon cameras and Kodak HIE infrared film. This series focuses on the state of Kerala at the southern tip of India, a unique combination of plantations, canals, mountains and coast.
Jake has been a fine art photographer for over ten years. He has been collaborating with Melvin Cambettie Davies on these prints, and they have arrived at a particular combination of split toning and printing which amplifies the magical quality of the infrared images.
Jake's work is focused on the evocation of pure and ancient landscapes. These artworks are about recording an unspoilt landscape, where evidence of modern human interference has been kept to a minimum. In attempting to preserve these environments by creating timeless pictures he evokes images from photography's origin. His combination of infrared film and split toned printing creates the feeling of an historical image, the sense of someone observing these places with a camera for the first time.
'Kodak HIE infrared film is itself an endangered material. Originally used for aerial reconnaissance it is incredibly sensitive, requires delicate handling, and its lack of an anti-halation backing makes it very liable to flare. But this also gives a magical quality to my subjects - the blown out highlights of living vegetation literally glow with light. And though through experience I have a good idea of what my results will be, working with HIE is not so much documenting or recording landscape - because the material itself has this unknown quality [we are after all photographing part of the spectrum not visible to the naked eye] - as transforming it.'
Curated by Duncan Caratacus Clark