The Winterbranch Series

Winterbranch is a series of experimental photographic works that use darkroom manipulation to produce unique film-based prints. The series began as a question regarding the poetic and contemplative aspects of small, dark, intimate images and how those formal aspects might affect a viewer’s interaction with them that grew into an exploration of unconventional darkroom techniques (lith printing, Sabattier, selective blurring, masks, overlays, multiple exposures, cut negatives, etc.). An exploration of the photographic process through experimentation and intuition while at the same time exploring my personal creative process. And hopefully, along the way, finding a way to make art that is uniquely my own. Exposed with a vintage half-frame 35mm camera, often reshooting the same scene multiple times in order to get a series of near identical images onto a single roll of film. Using an oversized negative carrier in the enlarger allows multiple frames to be exposed at once onto a single sheet of paper. The finished prints are typically presented as small, multiple images (diptychs, triptychs, and collages). Due to the serendipitous nature of my darkroom process, each print is unique.