Hugo Chazot-Ranquet, analog photographer and darkroom printmaker

The print is not a copy of the image, it is its birth.

The language

Hugo Chazot-Ranquet works the photographic image as matter. Through analog processes and darkroom printing, the image is not captured but constructed, shaped by light, chemistry and time.

His practice centres on the silver gelatin print, where grain becomes structure and the hand guides every decision. The print is not a reproduction. It is the moment when the image comes into existence.

Silver gelatin print

Silver gelatin print. The white of the page is the mat.

The process, made visible

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Video shows the making. The print is the work.