Light, Time at Riverbank is a site-specific exhibition linked to the River Thames in between Woolwich and North Greenwich. Combining mud larking, two types of camera-less photography ‘traditional photogram’ and ‘digital photogram’ alongside with digital photography and videos to explore the feeling of light and the passing of time.

What is a ‘digital-photogram’? Why do I make digital-photograms?
Photography has its past, it's ‘now’ and its future. The past of photography is film, analogue and darkroom printing. The 'now' is digital Photography and perhaps AI. I am asking myself: what will the future of photography look like? To answer this question, I created digital darkroom prints by capturing the light data from London using digital devices and printing this data onto photographic paper. The printing process does not involve a camera directly. The resulting photo degrades the clear figurative of the daily image into an abstract figure. I did this through a process I call 'digital photogram' and, to me, this is the future of photography. A new photographic language has the possibility to merge 'a new way of seeing' and “a new way of thinking” together onto a piece of one photographic paper.

In total, I created nearly 500 prints using ‘Digital Photogram’ since 2017.

About the artist
Lin, Wan-Ru was born in Taiwan but lives and works in London. Fascinated by the possibilities of photography and videography, Wan-Ru has engaged analogue dark-room techniques alongside digital images and documentary videos. With a focus on process and aesthetics, Wan-Ru has approached topics including dream, time, environment and manipulation of materials, light and photographic technologies, always questioning the possibility of the image.

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