YOU KNOW I DO 2016

YOU KNOW I DO

2016 · The project began as a personal challenge to develop a regular and repeated action with many different people in order to generate a series of photographs. The dynamic comprised of a staged setting (a room in LCC university's tower block) with two seats, one in front of the other. I made the first portrait to the person, and then I requested them to do one of me. allowing them my camera, explaining briefly how to proceed, and allowing them complete creative control over the portrait. It was a good approach to help them feel at ease. I also wanted to watch them perform my camera. Giving them accountability for the photographic moment's actions. In the same way, I'll have a fantastic series of portraits of myself done by others. I could see how the people who I was photographing perceived me.

The schedule was as follows:

1. Photograph all of the portraits in the same location. 14th level of LCC uni's tower block, occasionally 11th floor. 2. The same time of day. It was London, and noon was the best time - 3. The same camera: Yashica 124 mat G - 4. The same type of film (B&W Ilford HP5), 5. The same film processing, developer, and duration (8 minutes). 6. The identical enlarger at darkroom booth number 6, resulting in a lot of repetition.

The artwork's title is You Know I Do. It was the affirmative response to the question, "Are you having fun?" And I said, "You know I do." The project is a massive riddle. The pictures were printed in fragments of each face. Every single element may stand alone as a work of art, but the final piece was a puzzle with all the fragments. They are technically black and white negatives. Printed on Fuji Colour Paper. I experimented with the enlarger's colour filters and chance. In addition, the photographs were cropped by chance in the darkness of the colour darkroom. My darkroom work is inspired by game, chance, and fragments.

2020- YOU KNOW I DO

Camera: Mamiya C220, Film: varies, not always the same developer, Same location: Lakeside Centre.

Together with Max

With Emma

with Nacho

with Marina If we film

2016