Impermanence


  • Photographer
    Seung-Hwan Oh
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2012/07
  • Technical Info
    Bacterial culture on film

This project is about the super- imposition of a moment in microbial growth upon a moment in the life of a person through the projection of one spatial-temporal reality onto another. The process involves the cultiva- tion of chemical consuming microbes on a visual environ- ment created through portraits and a physical environment composed of developed film immersed in water. As the microbes consume the emul- sion over the course of months, the silver halides destabilize, obfuscating the legibility of foreground, background, and scale. This creates an aesthetic of entangled creation and destruction that inevitably is ephemeral, and results in complete disintegration of the film so that it can only be delicately digitized before it is consumed.

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