Fungi Slides Project Photographic mold
Robin Noorda started making serious photos at the age of 10 in 1970. Tens of thousands of slides dating back to his childhood had been blighted by mould. While throwing away the destroyed photographs, a fellow artist pointed him to the autonomous gained beauty and on that moment the Fungi Slides project was born.
This is unintentional tropism in its most natural and elementary form, affecting the essence of the photographic image by eliminating the emulsion. And in addition to this, new elements were created in the process. Those 'literal' spores of the fungus apparently responded to visual elements, as can be seen in the ring of mould around the sun.
The liquefaction of air that flows across the meadow, gives rise to creationist musings. The slides add a disturbing dimension to tropism, where fungi even react to light that has been captured on film.
Robin Noorda started making serious photos at the age of 10 in 1970. Tens of thousands of slides dating back to his childhood had been blighted by mould. While throwing away the destroyed photographs, a fellow artist pointed him to the autonomous gained beauty and on that moment the Fungi Slides project was born.
This is unintentional tropism in its most natural and elementary form, affecting the essence of the photographic image by eliminating the emulsion. And in addition to this, new elements were created in the process. Those 'literal' spores of the fungus apparently responded to visual elements, as can be seen in the ring of mould around the sun.
The liquefaction of air that flows across the meadow, gives rise to creationist musings. The slides add a disturbing dimension to tropism, where fungi even react to light that has been captured on film.
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