Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong’s collaborative book In the Beginning, with its spectral and atmospheric images combined with poetry will be featured in the Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project opening February 8 at the Perth Centre for Photography.
A mother and daughter team, their book explores the non-human – with images of spectres, figures and ghostly forms appearing naturally in abstracted sunset photographs spookily taken by Dianne in Darwin, with writing fleshing out these visions, by Kathryn.
It was during two trips to Darwin that Di began experimenting with the photographic methods that allowed phenomena of figures and ghostly images to appear in her unmanipulated photographs.