LIVING ARTEFACTS – Risk Hazekamp, Unlearning Photography

Analogue photography is the central medium of Risk Hazekamp’s art practice. Producing an analogue photograph involves creating an image, but it also stimulates action and thought. Confronted with the toxicity and coloniality of analogue photography, Hazekamp began to experiment with light-sensitive emulsions made from organic materials. Ephemeral images of diverse plants, vegetables, fruit, and other organisms emerged. This presentation explores the further extension of these ideas of toxicity and exploitation, through a journey which led to the conception of a living and breathing photograph: a photographic process that converts carbon dioxide into oxygen through photosynthesis.

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