Mike Ware

Hellenic ©

This set of five images was sun printed onto cyanotype (blueprint) paper using a variety of found objects. All were made during the first two weeks of July 2004, on holiday in the small fishing village and resort of Posidonion, in the south-east of the Greek Island of Samos. The paper was brought, ready sensitized, from UK, and no equipment was used other than a cardboard box. They were simply processed in the kitchen sink.
While the Olympic icon is the obvious leitmotif running through this set of images, other references may be found to Hellenic culture and environment. Technically, some of these images are innovative, in that the photogram has been taken into the third dimension – none of the objects was pressed flat - indeed this would have been impossible with the sea urchins and the apples! The successful achievement of reasonably sharp images depended on the intense Aegean sun, and clear sky, and my new version of the cyanotype process, whose higher sensitivity reduced exposure times to about one minute.

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