Ambient Pressure
Rebecca Najdowski
Ambient Pressure 4.
Ambient Pressure 3.
For this week's blog I am featuring an ongoing series created by Rebecca Nadjowski called, Ambient Pressure. She claims that this series is focused on both the relationship of photography to nature and also the nature of photography. These images originally started as negatives in the darkroom, but when she realized her dense amount of landscape and nature photos she thought what makes a landscape picture and why do we want to look at them? From there she went to manipulating the negatives; burning, scratching, tearing, stapling, folding, etc. Transforming these images gives them a textural look and also reflects the desire of commanding in human nature. I found this series to stand out to me because of their manipulation. If the artist had not added the effects that she had I do not feel they would have been as successful. This series is really interesting to think about in concept. My favorite part about the images is that they were manipulated by hand and that the artist is taking a risk to destroy what could be a perfectly good negative.
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