Retroreflection
16x20 Silver Gelatin Prints and 3d printed illuminated stereograph viewer with ortho transparencies
Retroreflection is an interactive photographic piece based on an experimental process I am calling reverse ocular stereophotography, wherein the reflections in the subject’s eyes from a single portrait photograph can be extracted and reinterpreted to create a three-dimensional stereoscopic view of the camera, photographer, and scene directly opposite the subject. This process can be applied retroactively to any head-on portrait with adequately bright and sharp reflections in the eyes.
My hope with this work is to allow us to reexamine and view portrait photographs in a new light, from a perspective of imagining the conditions and implications of the photographer and their influence onto their subjects.
