Damion Berger
1978M/Y Topaz, Ligurian Sea (Vessels), 2014
Pigment Ink on Baryta Paper
185 x 255 cm
138 x 168 cm
60,9 x 76,2 cm
138 x 168 cm
60,9 x 76,2 cm
Vessels is the genesis of a delicate interplay of time and motion – all-night-long exposures of a Sailing Yacht (S/Y), Motor Yacht (M/Y) or Cruise Ship at rest, drifting around...
Vessels is the genesis of a delicate interplay of time and motion – all-night-long exposures of a Sailing Yacht (S/Y), Motor Yacht (M/Y) or Cruise Ship at rest, drifting around their anchor at the mercy of the winds and currents.
Leaving the camera’s lens open throughout the night at its smallest aperture (f/64), only the artificial light emanating from the ship’s superstructure registers on the negative – revealing a hidden architecture of movement as the vessel powerlessly plots a slow and variable circumnavigation, yawing up and down with every wave and sketching out arcs of rotation and oscillation around its anchor, leaving a photographic recording akin to a electrocardiogram.
Printed in the negative, the resulting photographs are like line drawings whose layered geometry; architectural, spherical and mysterious in nature, are shaped by time and the slow invisible ebb and flow of nature. Mostly abstract in form, these vessels appear as foreign bodies, perfectly formed islands, angular semi-spherical structures or UFO’s, whose other worldly presence appears in stark contrast to the seemingly calm expanse of sea and sky – a distant horizon unchanged since the dawn of creation.
Damion Berger
Leaving the camera’s lens open throughout the night at its smallest aperture (f/64), only the artificial light emanating from the ship’s superstructure registers on the negative – revealing a hidden architecture of movement as the vessel powerlessly plots a slow and variable circumnavigation, yawing up and down with every wave and sketching out arcs of rotation and oscillation around its anchor, leaving a photographic recording akin to a electrocardiogram.
Printed in the negative, the resulting photographs are like line drawings whose layered geometry; architectural, spherical and mysterious in nature, are shaped by time and the slow invisible ebb and flow of nature. Mostly abstract in form, these vessels appear as foreign bodies, perfectly formed islands, angular semi-spherical structures or UFO’s, whose other worldly presence appears in stark contrast to the seemingly calm expanse of sea and sky – a distant horizon unchanged since the dawn of creation.
Damion Berger