Join us for this FREE artist talk with Elisha-Mai Gascoigne as she presents: Weather With Me on Tuesday, 5 August at 5:30pm UK-time.
In this talk, Elisha will discuss her process of building crap cameras and generally subverting the technical prowess often associated with being a photographer. Elisha says, ‘I did a photography degree without owning or using a camera.’
Weather with Me is a body of photographic work exploring the changing weather patterns in any location Elisha encountered at around 10am and 2.30pm daily from Sunday 14th of May 2023 onwards. This study encourages a consideration of environmental impact and climate change more locally and personally.
Using a hand-built camera and a cyanotype process that utilizes natural sunlight to expose the photographs, it creates authentic variations of exposure and image render. This work generates a testimony of time-specific experiences of weather patterns to illustrate the physical and material impact of changeable light conditions, atmosphere and pollution interference accumulated durationally and presented as an authentic visual calendar.
