Castro 93
The photographs in this series were taken in San Francisco, New York and London back in 1993. They began life as a series of portraits and have evolved through gradual manipulation into a set of ghostly apparitions and precious one off objects.
I printed them on my return to the UK using a variety of (pre digital) darkroom procedures. Over the intervening years I occasionally reworked the pictures using a combination of darkroom and household products. I wanted to emphasize the ambiguity of the image, mirroring the subject through the photographic process; by this I mean keeping a level of playful DIY naivety and embracing the element of mystery.