Curatorial description (Accessed: 18 December 2015)
These exquisite early prints by celebrated Canadian photographer Robert Bourdeau bear witness to the fact that even at the outset of his photographic career his command over the medium was striking. Bourdeau's approach to photography marries what could be described as a transcendent act of seeing and previsualization with a comprehensive understanding of light, film and printing, to draw out the inner depth and energy that he believes resides in all things. Here a selection of plant life is subject to the transformative power of his vision, so that even though rendered in minute detail through the highly technical medium of photography, they speak of much more than their physicality alone.
