Matthew Brandt is a contemporary photographer that does most of his work out of Southern California. His photographic work consists mostly of various alterations of photographs. In this particular series Brandt altered prints of different lakes and reservoirs around the state of California. Most of this series was altered through dipping his C prints in the lakes themselves. C prints are Chromogenic color prints that have a certain amount of silver halide emulsion and dyes that bring out the color of images on photographic paper. These prints were soaked in the lakes that were being photographed, which tinted or distorted the colors of these various images within his Lake and Reservoir series. This is a very creative and genius process that not only captures the visual essence of the lake in the image, but the alteration also embodies the physical properties of the lake in the image by being soaked in the lake's water.
This particular image above brings out the warm color scheme involved in the C print. Through the process of being soaked in Viel Lake water an alteration is brought fourth through the image. This process brings the image under a different light almost as if this image is being seen for the first time. This is an ingenious way of taking landscape photography and I hope to continue to see more work like this from Matthew Brandt.
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