Photograms

I began ,when experimenting with shadows, with shadow prints also known as photograms, this is produced with in a dark room and photo sensitive paper, way before the likes of digital photography. I felt like going back to square one to experiment with light, exposure, objects and shadows. The following images were my initial experiments when focusing the majority on the objects chosen. I wanted to focus on shadows, but also link to the idea of childhood; so finding toy objects small enough to be used for these prints.

I used objects such as toy wheel, Lego, star, My Little Pony, and Barbie, when using these in my prints they created great shapes and outlines of the toy objects which is what I was aiming for; to show and link to the concept of childhood. Although they were great shapes, the objects also created one blocked colour, meaning all white, due to being a solid object there was no tone. This then led me to find objects, of which are not linked to childhood,but can be used due to their transparency to create more tone on the prints. I tried varied objects to experiment with light and exposure; with the objects being solid will create two tone prints but when working with object such as jars or flasks will then allow the light to shine through the object creating more tones.

Below are some original prints I completed: