Aidan Gageler - The Giver

Aidan Gageler employs analogue processes to produce abstract photographs, allowing traditional substrates and exhausted chemistry to lend their quirks and failures to each image. Made without a camera, these works avoid being read as pictures or symbols. The Giver offers its audience an encounter with photography in its most immediate form, inscribed only by light, time, and chemistry. The work celebrates the medium’s capacity to be self-reflexive and prioritise its own object over those accumulated by the world around it.