LIGHT
Whether natural or as a result of human ingenuity, light surrounds us and also reflects our many moods. In this series of dimmed lamps, I used the light that they create as a harbinger of the vital light that leaves the eyes of people suffering from dementia. I experienced this firsthand with my late mother who recently died of Alzheimer. This series of photographs serves to honour her memory and shine a light on this devastating disease.
ABOUT
Joy Kardish explores the essence of stillness – the purest and most irreducible quality of the photo-image. Inspired by the enduring prints of early masters like Alfred Stieglitz. Kardish blends painstaking historic photography techniques such as cyanotype, with contemporary media to create works that seem to transcend the flow of time and cut through its ephemeral distractions.
Kardish’s deeply poetic and personal images seem “always to have been” masking the passionate engagement with photographic craft required for their realization. Each work is the product of many hours in the darkroom, teasing out a richness of tone and quality of light that’s only possible with classic photo techniques. Kardish works exclusively with chemistry-based cameras and film. Final images are reproduced on materials selected for character and endurance.