Talking to ants
Dublin Core
Title
Talking to ants
Shelfmark - 100.SGILL
Subject
Fine Art
Description
The photographs in this series were made in East London between 2009 and 2013. They feature objects and creatures that I sourced from the local surroundings and placed into the body of my camera.
I hoped through this method to encourage the spirit of the place to clamber aboard the images and be encapsulated in the film emulsion, like objects embedded in amber. My aim was to evoke the feeling of the area at the same time as describing its appearance as the subject was both in front and behind the camera lens at the same moment.
I like to think of these photographs as in-camera photograms in which conflict or harmony has been randomly formed in the final image depending on where the objects landed.
I hoped through this method to encourage the spirit of the place to clamber aboard the images and be encapsulated in the film emulsion, like objects embedded in amber. My aim was to evoke the feeling of the area at the same time as describing its appearance as the subject was both in front and behind the camera lens at the same moment.
I like to think of these photographs as in-camera photograms in which conflict or harmony has been randomly formed in the final image depending on where the objects landed.
Creator
Stephen Gill
Publisher
Nobody
Date
2014
Format
Cloth bound hardback
Silk screen and foil blocking cover
Silk screen and foil blocking cover
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
250mm x 250mm
Number of Pages
72
Number of images
34 colour photographs
Website
https://stephengill.co.uk
Where to buy
https://www.nobodybooks.com/product/talking-to-ants
Collection
Citation
Stephen Gill, “Talking to ants,” Photo Book Cafe Archive, accessed April 30, 2025, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/100.