Speciation

This work uses x-rays to explore the micro-evolution of cameras and is a metaphor about the limits of evolution. Form and media may have changed, but the camera is still a camera: a tool to create images by capturing light. Today’s digital cameras look and operate differently than the first cameras of the nineteenth century, however the essentials have not changed. The photographer points a contraption with a lens towards the subject to encode its likeness on a storage medium. While making these x-rays, I have been surprised and astonished by what I found inside the cameras. This project is an homage to the cameras I have owned, used, or handled. The tools of the trade, having faithfully imaged for decades, have themselves been imaged. The resulting images align with an inner desire to probe those unseen spaces and realms I sense exist, but do not observe with my eyes.

Kent Krugh is a gardener and a medical physicist whose attraction to photography includes and extends beyond the visible spectrum. Describing himself as â??by nature inquisitive and experimental,â?? Krugh produces work employing a variety of mechanical and chemical processes and devices in search of images which sustain him. From sensitive, black and white scenes shot through a salvaged Brownie viewfinder, and coffee-toned, hybrid visible light/x-ray images, Krughâ??s photographs celebrate the mystery and majesty of both the natural and man made worlds.