The ƒ/Ø (f-zero) Project is a printmaking and publishing studio established to rethink the nature of the photographic object, by starting again from the beginning. Our goal is to marry technologies from photographic history with artists from the contemporary world, giving them the opportunity to expand their vocabulary by working in a wider variety of techniques. Built on the model of twentieth-century printmaking studios like Tamarind and Gemini, rather than that of a photo-lab, we collaborate with artists to produce unique and editioned works.
As photographic technology has become more refined it has also become increasingly monolithic. Older technologies have often been abandoned when they still offer possibilities for artists. Using forgotten, abandoned and failed techniques rooted in history as a starting point, The ƒ/Ø Project is constantly experimenting to expand the idea of what a photograph can be in the contemporary world.
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Artwork
Orkney Islands Time
Michelle Stuart, 2021
9 ambrotypes, metal frames
8" x 10" each, approximately 26" x 34"
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Orkney Islands Time (detail)
Michelle Stuart, 2021
9 ambrotypes, metal frames (Panel B2)
8" x 10" each, approximately 26" x 34"
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Timeless Land
Michelle Stuart, 2021
9 ambrotypes, metal frames
8" x 10" each, approximately 26" x 34"
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Timeless Land (detail)
Michelle Stuart, 2021
9 ambrotypes, metal frames (Panel A1)
8" x 10" each, approximately 26" x 34"
Edition of 5
Printed and Published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Orkney Island Time and Timeless Land are two new projects by Michelle Stuart published by The ƒ/Ø Project. Both are nine panel ambrotype single works following the format of her previous project. Both continue Stuart's interest in the ways humans interact with the landscape - how the landscape takes on symbolic as well as practical value, and how humans use and think about place.
In Orkney Island Time the isolation of the far north with its rock walls and ancient monoliths is captured and frozen. Stuart says "there is stillness everywhere, as though someone will return and all has stopped until they return... but the return will never come."
In Timeless Land Stuart takes a more abstract approach exploiting photography's association with memory, rendering the landscape as if in a dream, which she thinks of as "foreign territory making an appearance when least we expect it."
Male Gaze (CD1044)
Carroll Dunham, 2019
Cliché verre salt print
8" x 10" on a 16" x 20" sheet
Edition of 5
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Extended Breathing
Suzy Lake, 2021
6 salt prints
8.5" x 11" each, approximately 18" x 34"
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Extended Breathing: Bickford High School (Detail)
Suzy Lake, 2021
1 of 6 salt prints
8.5" x 11" each, approximately 18" x 34"
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Proving Ground
David Maisel, 2017
Portfolio of nine hand-coated, gold-toned albumen prints in a cloth-covered case made by John Demerritt
12" x 12" on 16" x 16" mounts
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Proving Ground (Detail)
David Maisel, 2017
Portfolio of nine hand-coated, gold-toned albumen prints in a cloth-covered case made by John Demerritt
12" x 12" on 16" x 16" mounts
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Exposure (_1150781)
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, 2020
Salt print
10" x 7.5" on an 11" x 14" sheet
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Exposure (_1150840)
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, 2020
Salt print
10" x 7.5" on an 11" x 14" sheet
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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Dreams of Planet Earth #8
Christine Zuercher, 2018
Cyanotype
8.5" x 8.5"
Edition of 5
Printed and published by The ƒ/Ø Project
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