Abstract Photography

King's Best, ‘Neck’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 7 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piece is part of : (after) Whist...

This one-of-a-kind cameraless photograph is actually a baby photogram, initially made for a submission that requested specific small sized prints. All of my images are about what som...

“Eclipse (aka Time Lapse), San Diego, CA” - is a one-of-a-kind location-specific mixed process silver gelatin print (wet cyanotype/cyano-lumen) made with materials I collected from W...

Inspired by East Asian Sumi ink drawings, George McLeod wanted to find a photographic way of producing intricately detailed images. As with Sumi ink drawing, fire is both controllabl...

Dubawi, 'Stripped’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 15 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piec...

It's really majestic piece. It's grand in size and its got a very beautiful and impressive contrast in shades. This piece is something very special... two Luminograms in one work of...

Unique silver gelatin print (photogram made sans enlarger - with snow, ice, sand, flowers, and more). Cameraless ice-rubbing photogram. Alt process landscape print. I began making c...

ATO>MIC #9, 2020 Unique Gelatin Silver Print/ Luminogram and Photogram technique, Printed on tea infused fibre based paper, Framed 23 x 18 cm print size 38 x 35.5 cm framed Unique Series: ATO>MIC Signed and dated in pencil on print's verso © Michael G Jackson...

Unique silver gelatin print (photogram made sans enlarger - with snow, ice, sand, flowers, and more). Cameraless ice-rubbing photogram. Alt process landscape print. I began making c...

Unique silver gelatin print (Printed while working with a remote photograms student). Triple exposure with flowers, sand, and glitter. This 8x10 mixed process multiple exposure photogram was printed on Fomatone MG 133 - (The Chamois surface is quite beautiful, but doesn't translate super well digitally.) Before covid, I specialized in what I refer to as gelatin silver "spiritual landscapes...

ATO>MIC #3, 2020 Unique Gelatin Silver Print/ Luminogram and Photogram technique, Printed on tea infused fibre based paper, Custom Framed: museum mount-board with antireflective UV protective art glass in dark brown lacquered hardwood frame, /hand made in UK/ 23 x 18 cm (image print) 40.5 x 36 cm (Framed) Unique Series: ATO>MIC Signed and dated in pencil on verso Provided with the Certificate of Authenticity “The ATO>MIC work started as an attempt to replicate the idea behind still life painting - where you are trying to reproduce the image of solid looking things, things that could be on a shelf. So, I wanted to try doing that with just using light instead of paints - however I soon started to see the similarities with Harold Edgerton’s famous atomic explosion photos and how the scale of my work could be switched between small items on a shelf to enormous atomic explosions. That is the reason behind the strange title ATO>MIC - where the “>” is a kind of link between larger and smaller scales, between the two influencing ideas.” – Mike G Jackson The images (from the ATO>MIC series) may be reminiscent of the first milliseconds of atomic bomb explosions captured by Harold Edgerton's Rapatronic camera in the early 1950s but also visualise the thought of Maholy-Nagy’s bold visions in the Bauhaus’s movement toward the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art.” The 3D concepts that were first expanded in the same art movement by El Lissitzky a hundred years ago, are also explored here by Jackson’s drowned thin line within the third of the image. In his vision, the line reflects a shelf with the object on top, by adding the weight to it, the gravity pushing them down. Or maybe the thin line is just the horizon, where the enormous atomic blast took place…? Beyond these flat forms of two dimensional ‘lumino-graphic’ works on paper, the purest form of photography (‘light drawing’) lays a visible path to three-dimensional imaginary world, realised in precise composition, rhythm and warm earthy tones of these works. It’s up to the viewer to decide what they prefer to see and take with them. As Wassily Kandinsky once said; “Imagination is what allows your mind to discover.” About the Artist: Michael G Jackson...

Unique gelatin silver print (photogram); Mixed process multiple exposure with ice, sand, glitter, flowers (and my own hands); Exposed via firework LED (rigged for contrast, filter 3 ...