DOCUMENTING THE PROCESS OF CAMERA-LESS PHOTOGRAPHY
A chemigram is the outcome of applying liquid chemicals to light sensitive paper and putting them through the process of development, stopping it from developing and fixing it. You can choose to expose them to light, but if you don't they will be equally as nice and unique. I exposed all of my work to a type of light (enlarger light, sunlight) because it will develop faster and I can almost control the way it looks by taking it out of the developer when i like the way it looks. I experimented with different liquids like deodorant spray, vaseline, spit, washing up liquid and pink tint to compare the outcomes. Despite putting the chemigrams in the stoping chemical, they were still changing and transforming. The trays were fulfilled with pink ink so it caught onto some parts of my images which makes them look interesting.
"The essential tool of the photographic process is not the camera but the light-sensitive layer." László Moholy-Nagy
PIERRE CORDIER
Pierre Cordier is a Belgian artist who was famous for his unique looking chemigrams. He said he discovered the chemigram by writing a message with nail polish on photographic paper to a young German woman named Erika. But since his experiment worked succesfuly, he carried out layering chemicals on photographic paper to make interesting and new patterns. Pierre developed his technique and started to do patterns that don't even look like chemigrams, but abstract paintings or artwork. Due to his originality and new style of camera-less photography, he is very well known and has influenced many photographers and artists.