“Elite (Positive Contact), 2014-15” explores the expansive potential of photography. Re-presenting the packaging of a 1980s photographic consumable through the slight digital manipulation of its surface, the works questions the possibilities of the material within. Presented as silver gelatin prints made from a single digital negative this work betrays the nuances of the methods used to create it: the raster of the original, the digital slip of its manipulation, the physicality of the digital negative and the tonality of the papers. In this smaller version the image is reduced into a pattern, yet the physicality of the negative is fore-fronted.
Thom Bridge is a Swedish-British artist, curator, and educator based in South London and Manchester. His reflexive photographic practice explores both photography and identity through printmaking, sculpture, and installation. After earning an MFA in Photographic Art from Valand Academy in 2014, Bridge has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. He is currently involved in two notable collaborations: “pool” with Chicago-based artist Sonja Thomsen and a project with his identical twin, Theo.
