Black & White Photography - September 2015 UK

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INSPIRATION

Little did Therese Lynch think when she took these pictures 30 years ago

that she would revisit them digitally. The results show how a new approach

with a contemporary medium can enhance the work in unexpected ways.

READER ASSIGNMENT

I

took these pictures on the Kinglake Estate in 1985-6. I’d

been given a camera for my 21st birthday and, having come

from Dublin to London to find a job, was living in a squat

on Kinglake Street. On my days off I’d wander the estate

with my Olympus OM-10 – but most of the photos were never

printed beyond contact sheets. Recently (inspired by an Eddie

Ephraums article) I photographed the negatives and inverted

them. Occasionally I found two images that were side by side

on the negative strip and they came together to make one more

powerful image. I really like how this short narrative reveals

more about the place, and at the same time reveals something

about what I was thinking when I took the photos.

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