Chapter I, Seascape

  • "Chapter 1 of Illusory truth effect takes an age-old photographic motif, the seascape, and turns it from something seemingly trite and simplistic, into a deliciously clever exemplification of the photograph's latent capacity of endless manipulation. Across ten identically composed black and white images of a single oceanic horizon shows ten unique lighting condition"..."These images are not unique from one another, in fact, they’re all the same. These are not ten unique images, but ten unique prints of the same negative, each one manipulated via traditional darkroom techniques." from ISO magazine 2024 Spring If I Could Witness Anew

    • original: 5"x10" darkroom print scan

    • exhibition: 20"x25" archival pigment print