Thank you @luxlit for continuing the awesome 'Gray-Card Top 5' tradition, with your ' Year End Top 5 Photo Extravaganza!
My selected images honour my partner Alex's ongoing support of my craft, his contributons and his part in pushing my creativity forward.
1: ‘Pareja rara’ . Portrait of Alex and I. Bless mirrors! This is a Polaroid Duochrome (green) print soaked in bleach.
2: 'NYC #08. Jan, 2023'. A Polaroid print soaked in disinfectant. I soak my prints in many things, and Alex came up to me one day and suggested I try soaking the polaroids in disinfectant for a change. This image is the result.
3: 'The essence of self (i)'. This started as a photograph of a print of 'Rhapsody in red and magenta. #04 140923' which was Salt water soaked 35mm slide film (made with gratitude to a master of this process @matthew_c41) . I then printed this and did water colour washes over it. Very recently, I found out that it (as part of three images) is a finalist in an art award. My partner Alex encouraged me to invest in an art printer for home, so that I could experiment more with painting over prints. Something I had been wanting to do for a while, but was worried about the expsense and needed a push to actually do it.
4: "Downtown Manhattan, #09". Feb 2023. This was taken on Boiled Kodak 200 35mm, whilst I was staying with my partner and we went on local walk in the fog.
5: "Lush #71". Feb 2023.
This is a portrait of us both, shot on Kodachrome E100 soaked in Gin and Tonic, in his apartment.