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BioBob Carnie is a Toronto-based photographer with an international reputation for printing traditional and digital fine art for acclaimed photographers, galleries and museums. Being most in his element while working in the darkroom, Carnie maintains a hands-on approach that fuels his passion for photography. Bob has worked as a photographic printer throughout his professional career and he has printed for a wide variety of clients, including printing personal portfolios, private collections, gallery exhibitions and museum installations. |
Statement
He loves the photographic print- simple- without the print there is no photography for him.
The darkroom is his place to make statements, tell stories, inspire and create cherished objects that can be collected, viewed and passed down generations.
He captures his images on film, then through optical enlargements or scanning and digital negative he prints to historically significant processes (silver, platinum palladium, and for colour work tri colour gum bichromate prints).
These processes suit his needs; they are beautiful and as well permanent.
For almost all his current personal work the film is solarized first then the end process is chosen based on how he feels aesthetically the image will be best seen. The Sabatier effect is created by flashing light on the film or paper during development. It is one of the earliest phenomena in photography. The image tones all move to middle grey and on the edges of objects a black or white line becomes evident. Influences in this area include the artist Man Ray who perfected the technique with Lee Miller, and Steichen as he made colour prints over palladium by applying coloured pigment.
The control of the Sabatier process or solarization is done in the darkroom; a black line around the subject denotes a flash of controlled light during the films development. A white line around the subject denotes a controlled flash of light during the prints development. Bob chooses this flash carefully and at the right moment pulls the print from the developer to create these prints. Objects are brought to his studio, and over a period of time he photographs and solarizes them all to create a memory or a new vision of these subjects.
The subjects that he is presenting here are part of a larger body of work that is based items that are consumed, to be recycled, put away, or given to others.
In all cases he works in small editions of 7 so that over his life he can physically produce each series to leave behind as a minor document of what is consumed by our society.
The darkroom is his place to make statements, tell stories, inspire and create cherished objects that can be collected, viewed and passed down generations.
He captures his images on film, then through optical enlargements or scanning and digital negative he prints to historically significant processes (silver, platinum palladium, and for colour work tri colour gum bichromate prints).
These processes suit his needs; they are beautiful and as well permanent.
For almost all his current personal work the film is solarized first then the end process is chosen based on how he feels aesthetically the image will be best seen. The Sabatier effect is created by flashing light on the film or paper during development. It is one of the earliest phenomena in photography. The image tones all move to middle grey and on the edges of objects a black or white line becomes evident. Influences in this area include the artist Man Ray who perfected the technique with Lee Miller, and Steichen as he made colour prints over palladium by applying coloured pigment.
The control of the Sabatier process or solarization is done in the darkroom; a black line around the subject denotes a flash of controlled light during the films development. A white line around the subject denotes a controlled flash of light during the prints development. Bob chooses this flash carefully and at the right moment pulls the print from the developer to create these prints. Objects are brought to his studio, and over a period of time he photographs and solarizes them all to create a memory or a new vision of these subjects.
The subjects that he is presenting here are part of a larger body of work that is based items that are consumed, to be recycled, put away, or given to others.
In all cases he works in small editions of 7 so that over his life he can physically produce each series to leave behind as a minor document of what is consumed by our society.
Bob Carnie's work is available for purchase at the Dylan Ellis Gallery in Toronto.
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