Apparition: Postcards From Eye See You

• Prize
  Gold in Portfolio/Fine Art, 2nd Place winner in Portfolio
• Photographer
  J. Fredric May
• Agency / Studio
  J. Fredric May
• Technical Info
  Archival Pigment Print From Original Cyanotype Plate Bleached And Toned With Tea
• Photo Date
  2019

I am a former photojournalist and filmmaker. During open heart surgery in 2012, I suffered a major stroke leaving me legally blind and subject to vivid visual hallucinations. With a life-long habit of experimentation, I picked up my iPad and started to explore. Taking those facial fragments that filled half of my lost visual field and utilizing imaging software that corrupts visual data, I was effectively able to replicate what was happening with information within my own brain. I find a certain splendor in taking a corrupted .png file on an iPad and making an iron print from it.