och a wee shooooooooow for insomniacs .....................August 2010

a new show 

by candlelight 

in the Scottish settler city of Dunedin 

sheltered between the high cliffs and the harsh antarctic sea

curated by Larry Matthews

at the Lagniappe gallery

this is a group show featuring works only by pinhole camera ...

which I have been secretly working away on for 5 years ...

of my diorama pinhole polaroid collection I will show 6 images

camera oscura ..... the origins of photography

how to make a pinhole camera

always proposed to do an exhibition by torch or candlelight ,........
wonderful telepath that Larry ...!!!!

{lanyop} lagniappe small art gallery is a not-for-profit art space along george street in dunedin, new zealand behind mou very bar and above alchemy cafe. run by artist/designer/poet/magic

ian larry matthews it is open only when the sky is dark.

ghost girl

a long time ago
in a land far far away ...
there grew an obsession ...
for abandoned houses
and ghostly presences



"ghost girl" were my first ever published abandoned house shots ... they were shot about 15 years ago, on 5x4 inch infrared black and white sheet film ... not easy stuff to deal with ... film that has to be loaded by hand in a dark bag on location...

film which is affected not only by light and chemistry but also by heat (hence the fingerprints)






these images will be shown by the Arthaus66 gallery New Mexico.
10 x 12 inch prints in an edition of 10 each...

they are to be printed on the most luxurious Japanese black and white paper that is so matte you cannot see where it begins and ends .... zero reflectance ... it's wonderful stuff ...like the Yves Klein torso of Venus ...matte blue that fools the eye and makes spatial distance recognition impossible ...
(she most certainly wasn't in a case when I saw her ,.... I guess too many people just had to try and touch her ...)

hmmmmmmmmmm...............something something... something ...the dark side