HORISONTEN

HORISONTEN by Martin Czarnecki In this series I have put together photos of my surroundings over a period of 2 1/2 years. All photos were taken with a Polaroid SX-70 camera and printed with an emulsion lift process. I have separated the layer containing the image from the film and applied this onto a piece of paper.  This project depicts the banal situations of everyday life. If I had used the common photography technique of today, with its realistic and richly detailed representation, the photographs would be boring and unappealing. The emulsion lift process, however, minimises the "flood of details" like a filter, creating a perception which deviates from our usual visual perspective. For me the instant photo encompasses the magic of the early years of photography seen in daguerreotypes or the photographs of Oskar Barnack with the first Leicas. see also: http://www.fotovisura.com/user/Martin/view/horisonten or as ebook: https://itunes.apple.com/book/horisonten/id696861273