Ash and Decomposition: Connecting Intangible Transnational Narratives by Means of Camera, Colour and Affordances

This paper explores the use of camera, colour, and process to provoke a stateless,timeless connectivity between intangible narratives of the past with the present, seeding the future. The presentation examines the process underlying the work of Indian street photographer, Tikam Chand and use of his third generation 1860 shutterless Carl Zeiss Jena box camera; and the creation of ‘virtual images’ using the colour black as the ‘other’ by Moroccan born, Touhami Ennadre. Both works informing the process of an auto-ethnographic approach combining the use of a medium format camera and inherited post-colonial transnational media to explore intangible memories.

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