Offshore Recordings — a collection of vintage silver gelatine black-and-white hand prints dating from 1995–2007.

Memories in the form of texts are recorded on a typewriter, then documented underwater using an analogue large-format camera to capture a dancing brigade of light and wave movement across the scene.

The shards of light take on the semblance of charcoal on paper, rolling the texts over an offshore seascape that shifts into a cartographic recording, holding unchanging through time.

Presented here “as shot,” these colour negative film plates show flecks of colour darting through them; each final print is realised as a unique black-and-white silver gelatine print. This intervention removes any trace of colour, and by making only one unique print, further enforces the singularity of the final photograph.

These vintage release prints are dated 2016, hand printed by the artist in his London darkroom.

A richly illustrated PDF catalogue for this series is available to download here.

You can view the entire collection available for rights-managed licensing here.