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David Pereira

Contemporary Photography

David Pereira is a Portuguese/British artist living in London where he studied in the MA Photography at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture, and Design. In his practice, he researches the fundamentals of image creation in the analog darkroom by using chance as the key compositional principle, light as the medium and color the subject of his work.

David Pereira creates photograms without the use of a camera in total darkness. The series Endurance, introduces the notion of continuously creating unique colour photograms, under growing pressure, during long periods of time. While in total darkness, the creation of the photograms consists in repeatedly folding and exposing the light- sensitive paper, image by image, until it is unbearable to continue. The work was done in several sessions, with some of them going over an hour. During those periods of time, chance interference over control gradually increases so to open up what was defined or imagined as possible from the starting point.