#MyFilmStory - Lucy Ridges - Between Truth & Illusion

We are proud to share the 7th video on our #MyFilmStory series.

This time we meet Lucy Ridges, a visual artist working primarily with analogue photography and alternative processes such as hand colouring, cyanotype, and photopolymer gravure.

Shooting with a variety of film cameras including her Mamiya RB67 and Nikonos V loaded with ILFORD black and white medium format and 35mm film, Lucy works with the nude female form to create beautiful, strange and other worldly prints. Exploring double exposures and surrealism to create images with mood and texture that are somewhere between truth and illusion.

In this video we get an insight into Lucy's thoughts and creative process as we join her on her shoots both in the studio, and underwater and then, into the darkroom where she makes her prints.

02:25 Water and Glass
03:10 Lucy shoots her Mamiya RB67 loaded with ILFORD FP4 PLUS in the studio.
06:55 In the darkroom.
08:35 Underwater photography shoot with the Nikonos V loaded with ILFORD HP5 Plus black and white film.
10:13 The Exhibition. See how it all comes together as Lucy hangs prints for her exhibition.

Photography and Words: www.lucyridges.com / www.instagram.com/lucy_ridges
Direction and Cinematography: www.jamesstier.co.uk / www.instagram.com/mrjamesstier
Produced by: We Are Ronin and Lucy Ridges
Sound Recording: Jocelyn Harvey
Music by: dbh
Huge thanks to Lightbox Darkroom: https://lightbox.photo/

This video contains some mild nudity - please don't watch if you are offended by this.

View all the videos in the MyFilmStory playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLarwq93oldzRMSwItub1oHGTnF-bPoH9T

Видео #MyFilmStory - Lucy Ridges - Between Truth & Illusion канала ILFORD Photo