John Offenbach
Palimpsest
My work centres on the silver grains from my own archived negatives. The fundamental particles of pre-digital photography, each one less than a micron in diameter, and like a snowflake, unique, no two ever alike. The theme is centred on ageing and memory; remembering, forgetting, and remembering again. In some cases the silver is physically removed from my negatives and transformed into an ink. In other cases my old negatives are viewed under a microscope and scanned to produce granular files which I reuse as layers on new imagery; an episodic inheritance from the past. I chose concrete as the constructed new medium due to its natural palimpsestic qualities. Its provenance literally pressed into the present.
Julia Bohle • Jiaqi Chen • Jeremy Chih-Hao Chuang • Alicia Hamerman • Kaiyi Huang • Nelle Laurent • Zhuoheng Li • Yiyang Liao • Molly Lindsay • Lindsey Macadie • John Offenbach • Sara Sahores • Amy Sarr • Yanlam Shi • Kun Song • Sofiia Vinnichenko • Yingqi Wang • Zihan Xie • Roey Xinqi Qiu • Fengyang Zeng • Danilo Zocatelli Cesco •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography (Online)
University for the Creative Arts Farnham
MFA Photography
Nottingham Trent University
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography