Richard Learoyd

Anne. 2007

Breeze Blocks with Hare. 2007

Squid Front. 2007

Fish Heart. 2009

from www.richardlearoyd.com/

The particularity in RICHARD LEAROYD‘s work is the remarkable process: his images are produced individually as singular objects. Utilizing a distinct photographic method he creates life sized images inside a specifically built camera. This construction captures the image without any interposing film negative, transparency or intermediate material. Instead the apparatus of light is directly focussed by the camera and translated onto a sheet of positive photographic paper. With no means of reproduction, once created, ultimately every image is entirely unique in its existence.

These minimal compositions contradict complex and restrictive rules dictated by the physics of optics and light. I’ve also read that he spends hours studying his model and making tiny adjustments until he gets what he wants. He rarely makes more than a handful of images in a sitting.

But the extraordinary results are best described by MARTIN BARNES, chief curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in his 2007 essay “Reverie and Presence”, read here.



Un commentaire pour “Richard Learoyd”

  1. i saw one of your shots on tumblr, the one at the top of this page, its an amazing shot, i really love it

    cheers

    @tristanography