Susan Derges - Water and the photogram

Susan Derges uses the conventional photogram technique but, takes it into unusual environments to create her photographs.  Derges uses water as her format for creating the image projected onto the surface of the paper, doing this by placing large sheets of photographic paper into rivers, lakes and ponds.  Her photographs bring another element to the everyday motion and movement of water. The photograms hold little detail compared to a digital photograph however, they are much more intimate than a photograph.  Here photograms of moving water hold an ghostly feeling as the light and dark tones flow over the papers surface.  Like my current practice Derges creates her photograms at night, where I have been creating pinhole images of the moon at night, the moon becomes her light source as well.