Mark Ingham

 

I have made a series of works that uses an image projected through a SLR camera which has a transparency from my grandfathers collection inserted into it. The projection was created using a torch which is why the images are circular. The resulting photographs of these images pick up the image of the transparency and the bulb and reflector of the torch. For me this creates intensity and a ‘heat’ that emphasises certain regions of the photograph and alludes to the way memory can be thought about as focussing on small areas or fragments of and event. Sometimes when I think back to times in my life certain images seem to be highly illuminated whereas other parts of the scene are hazy at best or even completely dark.