Blog 2: Christopher Colville - Photograms

    

    Christopher Colville is an American photography who does work with photograms. In experimental and traditional form, he is known for pushing the boundaries of photographic medium. While looking through his website, I noticed a trend. He includes both photographs and photograms. Most of the photograms he has visually available here are black and white with brown and rusty shades too. 

   I like his use of these different shades that create images that make me wonder how he did it. For example, the few images with a coyote appear to have the same cutout he used but each background is  

different, almost as though he used chemicals on the paper before exposing it to light. Other of his works look like metal, using silver and more rust colors to make various shapes and impressions. I think some of the pictures included show what he used to make a few of the photograms, such as metal with holes in it, but it does not show what he did to the paper to get these different colors and patterns to show through. 

Seeing more of his work makes me wish I had experimented with other substances instead of just physical objects. I feel like it would have created a sense of depth and dimension that was otherwise hard to capture.