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These are photo-banners rolled out on the floor of my studio or shown in gallery-installations. The photo-banners consisted of very large rolls of newspaper-thin photo-sensitive paper, up to 15 meters long. They were glued directly onto the wall of the galleries, as if they were wallpaper. The repro-paper I used was never meant to serve as photo-printing paper; exposure times of up to 36 hours were not unusual. The photo-banner installations were of such a scale that they took on an architectural quality. A lot of emulsion on the paper remained ‘unused’, just like the empty space around a sculpture. It was photography approached with sculptural parameters.

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These are photo-banners rolled out on the floor of my studio or shown in gallery-installations. The photo-banners consisted of very large rolls of newspaper-thin photo-sensitive paper, up to 15 meters long. They were glued directly onto the wall of the galleries, as if they were wallpaper. The repro-paper I used was never meant to serve as photo-printing paper; exposure times of up to 36 hours were not unusual. The photo-banner installations were of such a scale that they took on an architectural quality. A lot of emulsion on the paper remained ‘unused’, just like the empty space around a sculpture. It was photography approached with sculptural parameters.

Click an image to view a lightbox...