Ghost Sensations / Machine Dreams 2021 - 2023
An editioned suite of ten gelatin silver darkroom prints on fibre-based paper
individual prints 38 x 37.5 cm
Ed 5 + 1 AP
Also editioned as a suite of ten giclée prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
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)
The gelatin silver print edition was first presented at the solo exhibition
Ghost Sensations / Machine Dreams:
A Photographic Intervention into the Collection at the Nordic Library at Athens.
See the exhibition and accompanying artist text here
Images above represent details of selected prints. Images to the right represent the gelatin silver edition.
Silver prints by Sandy Barnard. Giclée prints by Dimitris Sdralis
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 evening the city's deserted monuments remained spectacularly illuminated. Perhaps intentionally, perhaps unintentionally, they became beacons of endurance and continuance. With each sunrise the lights were turned off again. Hazewinkel captured these images in the moments before the monuments resumed their metaphoric daylight darkness.
He notes 'during that period, the coalesence of reduced industry and traffic, altered the qualities of the air, noticeably changing the light, which changed the expereince of dawn, making sunrise over the monumental ghosts of the city seem slower, extended, prolonged, and visually more nuanced.'
