Liz Fairbrass
I am a 3rd year student currently studying Contemporary Art. Throughout the course I have always been interested in Photography; making my own handmade pinhole cameras and experimenting with film.
I have always preferred the hands on methods to digital, I think that some of the human-ness and truth can be lost in the perfection of Digital. Using a darkroom and processing your own films gives you a real freedom and is something quite magical with photography and is becoming lost in this new world. Living around Yorkshire all my life I have always been interested in photographing Landscapes and documenting life in and around the city centres.
This set of images are from a trip to Vancouver, shot on an old film camera. Once I had returned I found out that the camera was broken and light was able to leak in and corrupt the film; resulting in the strange tones that can be seen. Using this mistake to my advantage I have continued experimenting with the film negatives manually. I haven't used digital processes to edit these images (apart from scanning them in) and this gives the images an authentic quality I feel couldn't have been created digitally.
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