Graham Diprose, Measurement of Talent, 1/1, Very few of my i...

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Graham Diprose, Measurement of Talent, 1/1, Very few of my images have begun as a debate in a student bar, but this was one of them.
Were degree grades really a ‘Measurement of Talent’? Pamela in this picture had just been awarded a ‘First ‘and hence, thought they were! This inspired her concept of a projected image onto her face, to use on her social media. We shot it on a high-end digital camera.

At the time much of our department’s work was copying and digitising black & white prints.
Hence, we decided to ‘go the other way’ and turn her data original into a liquid emulsion darkroom print, by making a copy negative of a print of her original. Pamela liked the result, but said “Shame you cannot have it in colour”!! It took me two weeks to figure out a hybrid process based on how colour photos were ‘colour separated’ for print output in the 1970s.
If any buyer wishes to know the full secret, they can get in touch with me, but try searching Google and I do not think you will the likes of this process anywhere worldwide. Hence. this ‘Full Colour Liquid Light Technique’ appears to be a ‘total one off’ in today’s photography.

Graham has worked in Commercial Photography for over 40 years. Over much of the same period he also headed up ‘Photography in the Faculty of Design’ at University of the Arts, London College of Communication (formally LCP). The transient nature of advertising campaigns that were forgotten a year later, inspired Graham to also work in ‘Documentary Photography’, where his images might be relevant to scholars’ centuries into the future. This led to Graham being concerned that with rapidly changing technology, the original Riverscape and Taunt prints could well survive for another century or more, while our new born-digital data images might not be readable, or even be migrated by future cash-strapped archives. Hence, he now advocates that the most important images in any of our personal, or national archives, should be pigment ink printed, or made into self-publish books, with an expected life of 300 years plus. More recently he has collaborated with University College, Oxford on a similar long-term archive project, and has written a chapter about his research for Springers academic books, published last July. Hence any buyer of Graham’s pictures can confidently display them in a bright room for the next 250 years!

Graham was also invited to become a Co-Author of a new Photographic Textbook “Photography: The New Basics” which is in the library of the majority of UK colleges and universities, where the subject is taught.

“It’s all about being playful and trying out new and sometimes crazy ideas, taking risks and living for the occasional ‘Wow’, along with all of the failures”. Hopefully this ethos of Graham’s reflects in all of these ‘one off’ experimental images that he is including here’’