The four black and white images that make up this photograph were merged as layers in Adobe Photoshop (2021) which was provided as a web-based software as a service for basically free to the photographer on an academic license so I get my students hooked on Adobe…making me some updated version of a heroin dealer. The portrait is of a boy born in 2010 in Netherlands taken in 2020…he has three passports none of which are Dutch (…national citizenship makes sense how??). His onesie, 100% cheap ass micro-plastic disposable consumer culture disaster polyester likely made by slave labour in China with no royalties paid we’re sure, of an original Pokemon character (1997) which is the best example of a Japanese pop-culture fad that lets the creators literally print money ever. His hair, done by him, was inspired somehow by the female lead in Tank Girl (1995). No issues re-gendering that one. The film was scanned on a Braun rebadged primefilm sanner (thank you globalization) that was made in 2012. The camera used to take the four black and white images that go into this colour image is a Rolleicord V purchased in the 1960s by his great grandmother who developed a taste for photography while loading, developing and interpreting aerial photography during the second world war (1939-1945)…after which she was slammed viciously back into the kitchen where (cough) women apparently belonged. The painting behind him is a gift given by the Japanese Ambassador to the subject’s great grandfather in Portugal in 1945 as a gift for his (failed) efforts in trying to negotiate Allied invasion into Hungary during that same war to keep the Russians out. The film the images were shot on is Fomapan 100 which is a formula that has been around since before the Second World War that is, literally, made in Bohemia and dirt cheap thanks to wage inequalities that remain in Europe 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall. The film was developed in a good copy of Rodinal which is a developer that has been around since 1890s. The trichrome process, shooting images on black and white film with red, green and blue filters, that are later combined to produce a colour image, was invented in 1869.
You will get high resolution scans of the source images and the final.
