Experimental still life of pears in foliage, with partial chemical disruption. Shot at home during COVID-19 lockdown using found items – when the pandemic disrupted things and life became still, we experimented with creating disrupted still life images.
Large format wet plate collodion process on 4x5 inch aluminium plate. Hand-induced chemical intervention applied by soaking areas of the plate in solvent to loosen and release the image-forming silver nitrate layer, causing veiled forms to appear and merge with the intact image.
Brence Coghill and Sharon Blance have been working together as a creative partnership since 2010. Together they work as commercial photographers in Melbourne, Australia whilst also collaborating on numerous personal artistic image-making projects.
Their current focus is on traditional darkroom and analogue practices including the 1850s-era wet plate collodion process, as well as fine art drawing/painting techniques incorporated into photographic media.
Awards Collectively Sharon and Brence have won numerous awards internationally:
2019 Third Place (Film/Analogue) plus 6x Highly Commended and 3x Honourable Mentions – Australian Photography Awards
2019 Silver Winner, Bronze Winner and an Honourable Mention – Tokyo International Foto Awards
2019 Silver Winner – PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
2019 4x Honourable Mentions – International Photography Awards
2018 Silver Winner – PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
2017 Australian Photography Awards – Finalist
2016 Australian Photography Awards – Double finalist
