Bridge

Unique gelatine silver prints, each 25 x 20cm

In my “Bridge” photograph series, the picture is made by exposing ten views of the bridge onto a single sheet of traditional black and white photo paper, painstakingly aligning them to create a single image. The white line in the middle is the walking path, which the camera follows, dividing the length of the bridge into ten photographs, the precise number of photos in the roll. You are following the white line when you walk along the bridge, and it is also followed when photographing and printing the images. Since the walk is broken into ten stops to make the photographs, exhausting the film once the whole bridge has been traveled, the length of the roll is the same as the length of the bridge. Then you have this one thing (the photograph) which is the length of two things: the roll of film, and the bridge. Each photograph is a unique print, almost like graphic prints, because they change depending on which negative I put first, and positioning while printing, as well as exposure, filtration, development.

The series of photographs "Bridge" photographs were made by exposing ten of negatives of the bridge on one sheet of black and white photographic paper, carefully aligning them to create one image; the camera's focus follows a white line between the bridge and the horizon. Photos taken by the camera are divided over the length of the bridge transversely. The transition was recorded with ten photos (the number of exposures that can fit on a single roll of film) documenting the length of the bridge. The photograph in this sense represents two lengths: the length of the bridge and the length of the film roll.
Each image is unique, like a monoprint, it changes depending on the enlarger, depending on the order in which they are exposed onto the paper, by the choice negatives and the positioning during printing, as well as exposure to light, filtration, developing.