End Of British Steel

Corinna Wagner is a writer, photographer and Professor of Visual and Literary Arts at the University of Exeter, who also studied fine art photography in the MA programme at Plymouth College of Art. Her work focuses on the relationship between the built and natural environment, as is reflected in her processes.

 

Traditional photographic techniques such as cyanotype and anthotype (using plant-based photosensitive materials), pinhole and large format photography, x-ray films and paper negatives are combined with digital image making. She prints on a wide range of traditional, handmade papers from Japanese mulberry to Indian cotton rag.

 

Images are processed in seawater and texturised with sand, chromoskedasic sabattier (‘painting’ on the photo surface), beeswax, and special oil paint made from reclaimed waste in the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers (among the most polluted in America).

 

Large images, some of which are mounted in lightboxes, of scenes of coastal ‘ruin’ are haunting and disturbing scenes of loss of natural and social habitats, of ever-changing and vanishing landscapes and coastal communities. They also reveal the beauty in images of decay and change, urging us to think about our attitudes toward conservation and ruin.

 

Photography | Large Format Manipulated Direct Positive Print on Aluminium Dibond

120x80cm

Unframed