Dried Flowers
I’ve been photographing dried flowers recently. These aren’t freshly sourced and styled for the camera—they’re leftovers really, remnants from previous shoots that I never consciously decided to keep, but also never threw away. They’ve just been gathering in my studio over time, often still arranged in the vases they were initially placed in, quietly waiting. There’s a stillness to them, a kind of quiet resilience, they carry a sense of time—of things ending, but not quite gone. And they look really beautiful photographed.
Each image is formed within a camera obscura, where compositions are exposed directly onto photographic paper and then contact printed in my darkroom.
This photograph was created using the Sabattier effect, a darkroom technique in which the partially developed image is briefly re-exposed to light, causing partial tone reversal and the appearance of ethereal halos and outlines.
This process creates a surreal, dreamlike aesthetic, blurring the line between positive and negative. In this photograph the natural structure of the flower is transformed by the chemical unpredictability of the technique, producing a ghostly, almost x-ray-like rendering that captures the fragile boundaries between light and dark.
20 × 24” Silver gelatin Sabattier print on resign coated paper
Unique
Dried Flowers
I’ve been photographing dried flowers recently. These aren’t freshly sourced and styled for the camera—they’re leftovers really, remnants from previous shoots that I never consciously decided to keep, but also never threw away. They’ve just been gathering in my studio over time, often still arranged in the vases they were initially placed in, quietly waiting. There’s a stillness to them, a kind of quiet resilience, they carry a sense of time—of things ending, but not quite gone. And they look really beautiful photographed.
Each image is formed within a camera obscura, where compositions are exposed directly onto photographic paper and then contact printed in my darkroom.
This photograph was created using the Sabattier effect, a darkroom technique in which the partially developed image is briefly re-exposed to light, causing partial tone reversal and the appearance of ethereal halos and outlines.
This process creates a surreal, dreamlike aesthetic, blurring the line between positive and negative. In this photograph the natural structure of the flower is transformed by the chemical unpredictability of the technique, producing a ghostly, almost x-ray-like rendering that captures the fragile boundaries between light and dark.
20 × 24” Silver gelatin Sabattier print on resign coated paper
Unique
