Annette Dennis

Brisbane-based designer and photographer Annette Dennis creates stunning photographic prints using a range of vintage and antique cameras. Using a unique ‘point-and-shoot’ method of capturing snippets from the world around her, her images posses real character and a feeling of nostalgia.

The prints are from original analogue photographs and have not been digitally enhanced or manipulated, simply scanned from a negative and printed to archival quality standards.

The sprocket effect occurs when 35mm film is loaded into a camera designed to take 120mm film, which is larger. This means that when the picture is taken the entire film frame is exposed, including the sprocket holes.

“I like to think of my work as “anti-photography”, because it is not the documentation of reality that people commonly expect from photographs. I love working with film, using crude methods of exposure and development in order to achieve unexpected results. My images are never retouched, and they may be incorrectly exposed or poorly cropped (I rarely use the viewfinder).”

“Therefore any image I capture is impossible to repeat, and often the best results are the ones caused by unforseen problems – I find these mistakes add an element of charm and beauty. I have discovered many different effects through utter accident.”

“I enjoy the sheer inconvenience of waiting for film to be processed and scanned, just for the surprise factor. Often I spend a lot of time and money only to find that an experiment has completely failed and that a roll of film is completely ruined or unusable. This is disappointing, but (usually) there are enough happy accidents to balance things out!”

 

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