
Swamp
- Publisher
- GOST Books
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 978-1-910401-08-8
- Specifications
- Hardback, silk screen cover
200 x 255 mm, portrait
136 pages
Chloe Sells' works begin as traditional photographs, created with her large-format camera in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. They are later transformed in her London darkroom with a combination of light manipulation, spontaneous experimentation and alchemy. Sells describes her unconventional work as 'drawings in photographs', and a selection of these unique, technicolour, dreamlike images are brought together in the artist's first book. The pictures take two forms: the first are fragments, or sections of larger images, created as a result of experimentation in the darkroom, highlighting specific portions of a landscape or a technique Sells is refining; the second type are created from 4 x 5 inch contact prints, interspersed throughout the fragments. In these works, Sells utilises the intimate perfection of the contact-print format to consider her experiences of place. Each outcome is unique, the result of a consuming and improvised darkroom process that layers light, texture and form.