Francois Dischinger

I am steeped in all aspects of photography, developed by years of play, dreams, experimentation and practice … refining and building on traditions through explorations in colour, shape, line, light and chemistry.

In challenging and transforming the notions and conceptions of what value abstract photography has, I rediscovered old darkroom techniques and experiments associated with Man Ray, Dada and Surrealism.

Eschewing all computer or digital processes, I work in an analogue darkroom using only the traditional tools and techniques developed during the medium’s inception. These include the use of static electricity, silhouettes, colored gels, all employed to produce sweeping lines, blushes and globules of colour  finally alighting themselves on photo sensitive silver paper.

Francois Dischinger, German b.South Africa
University of Calgary CANADA
Lives and works in New York City USA

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