Remaining Lights
In this series I am exploring the relationship between memories and the practice of photography trough a narrative of landscapes. Considering the brain as a camera, fixing in memory sequences of lights, colours and shapes; playing around with the blurriness and sharpness of past moments.
Using the remaining feelings left by specific times and locations, I try to recreate in my photographs, images as close as possible to the real memories. To do so, I fallowed a very particular process using a unique camera and a specific film. To create these images I returned to the locations of my memories with a handmade pinhole camera, shooting on 4x5 colour film and finally hand printed in the lab.
Using a handmade camera in a way melts the processing of thinking the photograph and the final printed work. The first step consists in shooting with the pinhole camera creating long exposures witch enable me to live the photograph and capture the essence of the landscape. A second step would be the actual printing; the time spent in the darkrooms prolongs the photographic process and closes the cycle started by the use of the pinhole and its long exposures.
From the series "Remaining Lights" © Clement Verger
From the series "Remaining Lights" © Clement Verger
From the series "Remaining Lights" © Clement Verger
Clement Verger's Bio:
After studying visual arts and communication at the National superior school of arts, Olivier de Serres in Paris; he moved to London in 2008 where he worked with photographers’ collective Luna, Lunatic magazine and as a freelance photographer, illustrator and graphic designer. He now focuses on his art practice exhibiting between France and UK and is work is represented in private collections around Europe.
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