| | | Jens Knigge
Foreign Bodies and the Bowel
The Foreign Bodies series was started by accident when good friend showed me his x-rays of his broken leg.
From the first second I saw them I recognized the strong pictorial quality. I also saw that the negatives had a strong tonal range and so I made platinum prints of them with a highly satisfying result. For me it was interesting to work with large quantities of existing film-material where the primary purpose was not pictorial photography. I was looking for a typical pictorially aesthetic inside the negatives and selected my compositions by cropping and cutting. The platinum process worked perfectly with these negatives and I made small pictures that shared many of the characteristics of drawings.
So Foreign Bodies were foreign things in the, for me, foreign bodies. Continuing with this approach I obtained some negatives of the bowel - some shot with double-contrast and this became the series Bowels. My intention, and interest, with these series was to take images of a quite unaesthetic character and by highlighting their abstract forms move them into a visually aesthetic frame.
Jens Knigge (January 9, 2008)
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