Winter Blues

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Giclée Print

Winter Blues investigates our relationship with winter light, or its absence, through an objective ontological lens. Between December 13 and December 17, 2019, I traveled across latitudes from 67°11.480’N, 20°34.440’E to 68°14.560’N, 20°03.110’E, capturing the shifting qualities of light each hour from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM. With sunrise and sunset only 15 minutes apart during this period, an additional exposure was made at 12:15 PM to document this rare daylight event. The resulting images were taken using a meticulously designed and crafted 8x10 format camera, developed specifically to produce a scientifically rigorous account of light.

Each exposure provides a purely denotative visual record, with the notch on the bottom left corner of each image indicating a Southwest orientation as a point of reference. Through this methodical approach, this work seeks to document the nature of winter light in its most elemental form.

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