Garry Fabian Miller was born in 1957, he has been making 'camera-less' photographs since 1985. He works in the darkroom, shining light through coloured glass and over cut-paper shapes to create forms that record directly onto photographic paper. As he says he wants to catch light, not what light catches.
Rather than most photographers who use light as a tool by which they make their work Fabian Miller is interested in light of itself. He uses sensitive material that holds light and makes it constant. His practice brings him closer to early history of the medium and also change thought about what photography is and where it might exist beyond the common model. Years of experiments with light, the paper and every day life objects like case a blue drinking-glass topped up with water, wooden and cardboard vanes or shutters, created his recognizable and unique style. Every time he goes to the darkroom he needs to spend 20 min in darkness so eyes can adapt and see “deposit of light directed at the place where the paper will catch it begins to emerge from invisibility.” Only now he can manipulate the image. Then the beam must be turned off and the paper positioned in complete blackout. Finally, the exposure may take as long as an hour.
The results are so unconventional that many viewers are unsure what they are seeing and how to relate to it. Miller says, “It's like nothing you've seen in the world before”
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