Rosetta's Dad is the celebrated documentary film-maker Peter Whitehead, a real 60's legend who I met some years ago through our mutual interest in holography. Peter is also a prolific author and his 1994 publication "The Risen", subtitled "A Holographic Novel", would probably appeal to readers of these pages. You can find details at http://www.peterwhitehead.net/.
Rosetta expressed an interest in holography and so I introduced her to the works of Graham Saxby. She has clearly inherited her father's "Can-do" attitude for in no time at all she was making Denisyuk holograms on the floor of her student flat in Leeds, where she was studying photography. Introductions to Nick Hardy and Martin Richardson fuelled her ambitions and she recently completed her BA thesis "The Social Impact of Pictorial Space" How did society react to the development of 'pictorial illusion' and how has the recent technology of Holography followed or differed from previous technologies?
Here's Rosetta in front of her portrait 'Atomic Luv'.
I gather she has received a grant to attend the ISDH in China this July and seems set to become one of the next generation of women holographers. I look forward to exhibiting her work at 286 one day.
Also attending today's viewing was Pearl John,who currently has a hologram on display at the MIT Museum, seen here sharing a joke with Martin.
The exhibition contains some large format 2D works by Martin and here he is explaining the 3D laser scannng techniques he employed in creating 'Digital Dreams', the central image.
dimensioned... runs until February 28th.
