Archival Ink Nude Photography

#Girl Manoeuvres - 01 from the series Dunderwear - 2007 26x20cm edition of 7 . Archival C-print based on the Polaroid , on beautiful on Fine art bright white by Hahnemuhle framed in a shadow Frame (white oiled wood) Hand signed & numbered by the artist. Carmen De Vos - Artist Statement Flying Freelance Portrayer. Purveyor of Exquisite Photographic Peculiarities. Chroniqueur and Archiver. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the late TicKL-Magazine. The Belgian artist Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades, they get so easily out of hand. She enormously longs for what she’s afraid to loose: real human contact, the slowness of being and creating, the tangibility of materials. Almost without exception she uses old Polaroid camera’s, long time expired film and self-made filters. Her tools and methods - such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction - are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results - such as colorisation, deformation, unsharpness - which she could never have predicted on forehand with any certainty, because their flaws do not allow for calculation. She’s not in control. She fights the material. She plans, stages and directs but the decayed chemistry and off-focus lenses add their magic. All by themselves. Which merrily surprises her. Or ruins her image. This battle attracts her as much as it frustrates her. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given. Luckily, she’s a sucker for imperfections. Once upon a time she found herself guilty of home-crafted mischiefs for TicKL, her English art porn Polaroid magazine. She never really got cured from naughtiness. She can’t help but traveling back to these blessed times of free-love photography...

RANONKEL #diptych, 2009 [From the series Need to Be] Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 30x40cm each, 70x40cm installed. Digital archival pigment print based on a Polar...

Tales of Bitter Moon #35 -2018 Published in Carmen De Vos's new book 'The Eyes of the Fox'. 80x80cm, edition of 5, Digital archival pigment print 
based on an original Polaroid
 on...

Camisole - 2018 Published in Carmen De Vos's new book 'The Eyes of the Fox'. 80x80cm, Edition of 5, Digital archival pigment print 
based on an original Polaroid
 on beautiful PHO...

Tales of Bitter Moon #35 -2018 Published in Carmen De Vos's new book 'The Eyes of the Fox'. 80x80cm, edition of 5, Digital archival pigment print 
based on an original Polaroid
 on...

Dream of what became of me [From the series Need to be] - 2015 - 20x16cm, Edition of 30. Giclee archival pigment print on PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH paper
305gsm, 100% cotton by HA...

RANONKEL #2, 2009 [From the series Need to Be] Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 30x40x2cm. Digital archival pigment print based on an original Polaroid on museum qual...

MISS ERIS #29 [From the series Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] Exhibited in solo shows in 2018 in Ghent and Antwerp. Published in her book 'The Eyes of th...

RANONKEL #1, 2009 [From the series Need to Be] Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 30x40x2cm. Digital archival pigment print based on an original Polaroid on museum qual...

SCENES #12G1 /2013, 40x30x2cm [From Carmen's photo novel His Good Right] Digital archival pigment print based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH paper, 305...

Girl Manoeuvres - Story Board, 2007/2018, Edition 1/7, 105 x 85 cm (including the white frame), Digital color print based on 9 original Polaroids on bea...

MISS ERIS #07 /2015 [From the series Les Foxy Femmes] Art print based on an expired Polaroid photograph Mounted on DILITE 2mm - 30x39x3cm - matt coating Embedded in a white matt wood...

THE STORY OF MISS ERIS #01 /2015 [From the series Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] Art print based on an expired Polaroid Mounted on DILITE 2mm - 30x39x3cm - matt coating Embedded i...

Writer’s Block II - 2012, [From the series Odd Stories] 30x40cm, Edition of 7 + 2 AP Archival color print based on the original Polaroid. Mounted on Dibond ® 2 mm - finished with...