Mesmerising
that these 19th-century methods come into play. Comprising mesmeric colour-blocked and collaged landscapes, the images propose slightly distorted views of Turkey’s Kapadokya region. Mandry had taken the original photographs a few years before, and was inspired to rework the prints after discovering some black and white postcards dating from that period in the Middle East, which had been painted over in colour.
Mandry’s signature innovation comes into play here – though an actual camera does not. “For the ice photograms, I wanted to reduce the technical tools to the essentials: light, ice and time, exposed on photosensitive surface,” he says. In this way, the process behindbecomes a comment on climate change, and how we continue to attempt to control it. “It is basically a condensed version of the whole process of glaciers disappearing, since the ice melts in only a few minutes in the heat of the lab.
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