FISH PERMUTATIONS:
ARTIST'S TALK AND DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRA LARGE PHOTOGRAPHY
June 24th, 2011, 19:00
Artist: Joseph Jeremie Roy
Exhibition On View: June 10th – July 23rd, 2011. Mon - Fri 10:00 -18:00, Sat 10:00-15:00

Joseph Jeremie Roy will give a free artist’s talk and demonstration at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) Friday, June 24th, 19:00. He will discuss his work and the platinum printing process and demonstrate the Mola, the ultra large format camera that he designed and hand-built. The audience will be able to watch Roy’s complete process from composition and shooting through to contact printing in the darkroom.

Roy has evolved his modus operandi to include input on every part of the photographic process from production to presentation. He has used only light and chemical photographic processes to capture and produce images with large format film, ultra large paper negatives, and handmade ultra large format glass plate negatives. Some of the first images from the Mola, are included in the exhibition Fish Permutations currently on view at SPAO.

“The Mola is the first in a series of cameras I intend to build that are really difficult to use.
By creating these cameras I am making comment on the nonchalance with which we
make images in a digital era.”

The fish is the recurrent motif threading its way through the collection of platinum and palladium and gelatin silver contact prints. Roy’s works express the themes of resurrection and mortality from the twin perspectives of content and production, while their size from ultra large to extra small shows the artist’s struggle with the implications of scale and presentation in contemporary photographic practice.

The Red Wall Gallery is located in SPAO at 168 Dalhousie, at the corner of Bruyère, in the Byward Market.