Erwin Kneihsl

An alchemist photographer is what you could call him.

Kneihsl practices photography in spirit of alchemy. His focus of attention is not directed towards materials and their external forms, but the ‘transmutation’ of the subject of the photograph into an image in the mind’s eye. This corresponds to both the motifs and the methods of Kneihsl’s photography: the decision to exclusively use mechanical cameras, the classical black and white film, and the insistence on personally producing his gelatine silver prints from the negative material.

Whatever you decide to nickname his concept and process, Erwin Kneihsl makes me miss the darkroom.

read an article about his current exhibition artdaily.org