Lakes and Reservoirs by Matthew Brandt

Lake Selmac OR 1C-print soaked in Lake Slemac water

Lake Casitas CA 3C-print soaked in Lake Casitas water

Lake Matthews CA 2C-print soaked in Lake Matthews water

Dexter Lake OR 3C-print soaked in Dexter Lake water

Lake Selmac OR 1C-print soaked in Lake Slemac water

These multi-layered photographs, are something simple yet magical materializing in the dark room – a focus on the process rather than the perfected finished product. Hailing from LA, Brandt manipulates each color photograph, soaking the developed image into liquids uniquely related to individual places or people such as lakes and reservoirs or human sweat and blood.

This technique gives Brandt’s images a gorgeous blend of color and light that softly bleed across the confined parameters of the photographs’ edges. They embrace the ideas of deterioration, fragility, and chance leaving us appreciating what film can capture and what digital photography cannot.

(quoted from http://www.domogeneous.com/photographer-matthew-brandt)