The Wicked Burns of Chris McCaw
As the story goes, photography is the capturing of light, both in the literal and metaphysical senses. If you can imagine a sunlit room containing cushioned furniture and any number of little articles, and imagine all the light that falls and curls under the objects into shadows. Using light sensitive materials to burn those objects; reflections onto a document, is lightwriting, photography. Are your palms sweating and is your mouth as dry as mine? Chris McCaw is a San Fransico based photographer who salivates when contemplating this wonder of a medium for sure, otherwise he would not have investigated the methods he used to produce SUNBURN, a series of paper negatives that have been s...Read more