The World Tour posts segues into a bit of shameless self-promotion for my new self-published catalog of lumen prints, Crescent City Illumenations.
Preview/Purchase HERE
For this project, I didn't travel miles to see a new world, I simply gathered flowers and leaves from sidewalks in the Garden District and looked at my surroundings in a new light. That's what a "lumen" print is. Essentially, a it is a solar photogram. An object placed on light sensitive paper and then exposed in the sun. In essence, it can be used as a paper negative to create a positive print, in black and white. However, I like to keep them as they are, using the colors of the emulsions in the paper to further illuminate the subjects. This series was done on a now defunct Agfa paper. That paper can be used years after its expiration gives one of the biggest rewards of lumen printing - recycling.
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| Cat's Claw 2010 |
I began working with this process in late 2008. Crescent City Illumenations was created in 2010. Three years later, I still walk through the Garden District, picking up leaves and flowers, though I've also added feathers into my luminous reportoire, and I've gotten slightly more adventurous with bug wings.
I created this catalog simply to share "my world", the world I choose to see. In that respect, this blog entry is no different than my posts on travels to China, Delhi, or Poland. Hope you enjoy! I'll be in Quebec soon, I hope.
Feel free to browse thru the book. If you'd like to purchase, I thank you very much for supporting me, the World Tour, and all my 'nattie concepts'.
