Research- Susan Derges

Susan Derges.

Susan Derges was born in London in 1955. She studied painting at the Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1973-1976 and at the slade school of art from 1977-1979. She then turned to photography, exploring in particular early photographic techniques of cameraless photography - exposing images directly onto photographic paper - techniques she has continued to refine and develop to this day.

 For the 1997 River Taw series she worked at night, placing photographic paper on the river bed and allowing the images to be exposed through ambient light, aided by the use of a flash gun. Her technique involved a very direct and unmediated physical relationship with the landscape.
River Taw, 19 January, 1999, photograph, 76.2cm x 30.5cm by Susan Derges.
Much of her subsequent work has dealt with this relationship - of separation and connectiveness with the natural world. Her images are often beautiful, conjuring metaphysical and metaphorical layers of meaning. Her methods have been consistently experimental, a constant search for new cameraless methods of recording imagery, including the photogram, while directly connecting with the world she observes.she first experimented with cameraless photographywhile living in Japan.



Susan Derges, Full Moon Hawthorn.Under The Moon series involved working with photographs of the moon and combining these with water and branch patterns exposed to sound vibrations in the darkroom. Her images, though based upon the capturing of external natural realities, take on a metaphorical dimension that echo the inner life of the unconscious and imaginative.I think that her works are very beautiful and to be able to creat such pictures amazes me to the point where i really have to try it!! Her pictures also capture the beauty of our planet and she is influenced by the planet around her with natral lights and objects, susan is very creative in what she does and showing you only two of her pictures was very hard as there are many to choose from.I love the closeness of her pictures and the colours that are created.