Field of Exposure

29°55’48.26″S 131°42’28.98″E

37°02’11.48″N 116°02’05.99″W

50°35’26.35″N 77°50’50.35″E

Silver gelatin print, safety light

The photographs are based on satellite images of three nuclear test sites: Maralinga in Australia, Nevada in the United States, and Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. Such landscapes have often been considered so-called „dark places“—remote and seemingly uninhabited and empty, which is far from the truth. The work draws a parallel between nuclear radiation and the developing of photographs in a darkroom, where both processes are activated by light and leave behind dangerous remnants.

Each figure is double One half is induced with conventional chemicals, while the other with chemicals collected in nature A safety light above the work refers both to the darkroom and to a warning signal.

Silver gelatin prints, safelight

These prints are derived from satellite images of three nuclear test sites: Maralinga, Australia, Nevada, USA, and Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan Such landscapes have often been protected as „shadow places“, remote and seemingly empty. The work draws a parallel between nuclear exposure and darkroom photographic exposure, where both register through light and leave hazardous residues.

Each print is divided. One half is developed chemically, the other with a plant-based developer made from foraged materials. A safety above evokes both the space of image-making in the dark room and a distant warning signal

Photo credits: Sisters Lumière/ @sisters_lumiere