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Recent work: Tea-based developer experiment

Rooted in a personal connection to my family's history with tea cultivation, this project transforms tea leaves into photographic developers. By experimenting with different infusions, I aim to translate the essence of tea into tangible photographic forms, exploring themes of memory, heritage, and the transformation of natural materials.

This project involves a hands-on exploration of tea as a photographic developing agent. Through a series of carefully documented experiments, I am testing various tea varieties and brewing methods to determine their effectiveness in developing black and white film and prints. The current phase of the project has revealed that tea-based developers generally require longer development times compared to conventional developers, suggesting the need for further experimentation with concentration and temperature.

Scanned negatives, from top to bottom code 'tea-001' to 'tea-009-2'

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Tea-Dev test note

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Contact sheet

( ongoing )

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