Thelma Chambers Photographs

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Geranium shadow ship

I question the conventional belief that photography records the world accurately. I find accuracy when I moderate contrast and avoid conditions where cast light takes precedence over subject matter; this is the equivalent of focussing on the local colour rather than cast light or tonal values. This moderation can give more nuance, more wholeness. I aim to make images which are true to our shared experience of the visual world. True to our experience at the moment of seeing, and true to how the experience of seeing sits in our memory. As with my paintings, I give less emphasis to cast light and modelling than to local colour, and my subject matter might not appear to be “lit” from a direct light source; it is the same with the majority of my photographs. Sometimes the subject matter is very much about light and form so this is not always the case. An example of this is the photographs showing Portuguese architecture where frequently architects have desig...

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