Glimmer shows the watery reflection of a mangrove root during high tide in Tāmaki Bay. Changes in the environment have their own way of affecting media and individuals, and for Roma Anderson, film photography can be conceived as the culmination of the conditions of the artist and the environment at a given moment. Working in an intuitive way, Anderson notes much that occurs between the opening and closing of a camera shutter and the recording of light cannot always be explained. At the advent of photography, material artefacts arising from the unpredictability of film were attributed to the hand or interference of spirits or other agencies.
Roma Anderson, Glimmer (diptych), 2023, Acrylic Face-Mounted Fujiflex Prints from 120mm Film Photographs
