Photography - Induction

Today I had my photography induction in the dark room at the Clarendon Building. The lesson was with Ikuko Tsuchiya, a photographer who had an exhibition at the university last month. Her work focuses on using photography as a therapeutic agent in healthcare.

http://www.nugits.nhs.uk/page.asp?id=274040

Today we worked without a camera and were taught the basic principles of exposing photographic paper to light. The process involved placing an object on top of the photographic paper, exposing it to various strengths of light and then fixing that image in a chemical bath.

Above are some examples of the work I created today, the first was created with a long exposure to light which resulted in the dark black area. The image to the right was created by flicking the chemicals from the bath onto the paper.