Denim Terrains

Overview

Denim Terrains comes out of a larger body of photographic work titled Denim (Worker Pants) that interrogates notions of value by using as a point of departure techniques and aesthetics typically reserved for studio portraiture and product photography. Together they highlight how image-based media produces, assigns, and props up value that is inherently arbitrary and/or autocratic. In that same vein, the photographs for this particular film were specifically made using expired film and positive slide film that was cross-processed as negative film to really exaggerate and experiment with color, and break away from traditional photography. In scanning and (re)photographing the results, these materials were transmuted and composited into new digital configurations.