Ghost Sensations / Machine Dreams 2021 - 2023
An editioned suite of ten gelatin silver darkroom prints on fibre-based paper
also editioned as a suite of ten giclée prints
gelatin silver edition
individual prints 38 x 37.5 cm
Ed 5 + 1 AP
giclée edition
individual prints 100 x 100 cm
Ed 5 + 1 AP
1: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 1 (Roman Agora A)
2: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 2 (Roman Agora B)
3: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 3 (Propylaea and Temple of Athena Nike A)
4: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 4 (Propylaea and Temple of Athena Nike B)
5: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 5 (Acropolis of Athens A)
6: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 6 (Acropolis of Athens B)
7: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 7 (Temple of Olympian Zeus A)
8: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 8 (Temple of Olympian Zeus B)
9: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 9 (Arch of Hadrian A)
10: Ghost Sensations/Machine Dreams 10 (Arch of Hadrian B)
Images above are details of selected prints. Images right represent the full suite of the gelatin silver edition.
Darkroom prints by Sandy Barnard
These multiple exposure images were captured in Athens, on medium format film, in predawn light, during the first winter of movement restrictions associated with the recent pandemic while the city's monumental ghosts stood in stoic silence reminding us of our own ephemerality.
Each night the deserted city’s monuments remained spectacularly lit, perhaps intentionally becoming beacons of continuance and endurance. With each sunrise the lights were turned off. Hazewinkel captured them just before they assumed their metaphoric daylight darkness. He notes that during that period, the qualities of the air and the light noticeably changed making sunrise over the monumental ghosts seem slower, longer, and tonally more nuanced.
