Scratched Silver

This series explores the physical presence of the photographic print, emphasising photography’s nature as both image and object. Each work begins as a silver gelatin print, traditionally exposed and processed. The paper is then folded into origami forms, transforming the flat photograph into a sculptural object. Along each fold, the silver layer is carefully scratched away, revealing the fibre of the paper beneath.

These interventions disrupt the photograph’s surface, exposing the material that supports the image and challenging the assumption that photography is purely visual. By foregrounding the tangible qualities of the print—the weight of the paper, the sheen of silver, the fragility of its surface—this work reasserts the photograph as a physical artefact, not just an image.