2017-10-01

Obsolete (?) talk & demonstration

With billions of images being made and shared digitally every day, and photographic equipment increasingly reliant on software and computing power, are traditional image-making methods still relevant?

In conjunction with No Man's Land, an Antarctic photography exhibition currently hosted in Balai Seni Negara (BSN), artists Mahen Bala, Jeffrey Lim and Dr. Azril Ismail are conducting a workshop and sharing session on analogue photography.

Analogue processes in photography explores the intimate and direct relationship between the person, the proces, and the outcome. The physicality and modality of these analogue processes allow the practitioners to modify, adapt, and experiment with various elements to produce new perspectives on a familiar object.
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Mahen Bala will start the session with a short presentation on the extreme challenges faced by the early photographers in Antarctica and how their works have survived the century and is
being revisited today.

K. Azril Ismail will be sharing his experience in 19th century photographic processes. He will demonstrate the many steps that fo into making a wet plate using collodion.

Jeffrey Lim will be demonstrating how 'anything' can be turned into a camera, provided the practitioner has a full grasp of the fundamental principles of light, optics and photo-chemistry.

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Presentation & demonstration
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Q&A with Azril and Mahen