The night scenes were something I had been developing for a while and which eventually came together late one night in Waterford.
The idea was to experiment and push the camera and processing making a feature of the impɘrfections and limitations. These so called defaults are usually what’s most interesting about many creative processes.
The challenge is in the approach. Rewiring the brain to work in a way thats outside photographic norms and against everything we are taught not to do technically. Which means accepting all the noise digital cameras bring to low light photography and to see the imperfections from a different point of view and having a use rather than being disregarded.
The equivalent in sound would be distortion, which is technically wrong, but the imperfections of the sound produces something interesting and unforeseen which then becomes a creative tool.
Having an interest in the history of photography this process reminded me of the Pictorialism movement of the 1860s where traditional straight photography was taken in different direction by photographers looking for different ways to push the medium.
Part of this series was selected for publication in the Black+White Magazine Salon selection.
Black+White Photography Magazine
In our search for some of the best work by Black+White aficionados, we discovered Diarmuid Doran's images.
His most resonant series is one that steps outside of photographic norms and embraces the distortion of extreme ISOs and low light.
