The project is a series of photographs made using my antique Argus 75 Medium format film camera during a field trip to the Central coast beaches, Maitland Bay and MacMasters Beach.
The idea of this series is to photograph things and people in a happenstance way during my stroll of these beaches. I welcome the chance meetings and accidents which mark the film due to its age and condition.
I prefer to use intuition as a guide to when I take photographs. I also like to experiment with using different colour film from the unusual stock found in camera shops, the film for these photographs is from a Russian film lab online.
All these combinations come together and reveal a story of some sort when I have the film developed and can look through the prints.
This story seems to be edging towards a goodbye of humankind and a return to nature.
- Zorica Purlija
Opening Celebration: Saturday 30 November 3-5pm
Image: Zorica Purlija, Ocean Pool, 2024, Digital print from film on Baryta photo paper, 36 x 36 cm, Image COTA