His influence comes from his early photographic education and the fascination with the basic materials. In a process with so many unknowns, he is gradually discovering more about the process and materials with each session in the darkroom. In their final form, the work makes viewers question what exactly it is they’re looking at. Falling somewhere between photographic and painterly, each piece lives as a unique object with indescribable material qualities.
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Kyle Camper
Based in Richmond, Virginia, Kyle Camper is an alternative process artist working with expired photographic materials. Utilizing the chemigram process, he works to uncover the limits and possibilities of photographic materials new and old by breaking them down to their fundamental elements and stretching them as far as possible. Being mostly process based, his work aims to show the viewer how it was created, and to expand the way photographic materials are talked about and used. What was once a process that yielded “random” results, Kyle and those around him are discovering more how to control every element to get the desired result. Studying at VCU, he was able to focus solely on the furtherment and discovery of this process, without a heavy conceptual framework. Having the ability to make first and think second, the work takes wild turns often, almost always bringing about new discovery.
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