Nanna Krogh Lauritsen

Reposition

Through the history of photography glass plates have mainly found their use as support for photographic emulsion. The collaboration between glass and chemicals and then exposure and development have led to the constitution of a negative formed image.

A visible presence of the glass plate as an object, is omitted in the creation of photographs. It becomes a tool in a proces, rather than being a visible part of the depicted subject.

The Reposition series aims to bring attention towards these invisible supports. By using the photogram as method for creating new images, the glass plates which normally would be laying flat has now shifted to standing. Hence the materiality of the plates steps forward and emerge in new shapes and casted shadows. The Reposition series demonstrates how the original motifs on the negatives are put in the background and how the materiality of the glass negatives steps forward in the making of these new images.