From the Roster

Richard Learoyd strips photography down to its essentials, following a historical photographic process invented centuries ago. His direct-positive colour prints are produced using a custom-built, in-studio camera obscura, composed of two dark chambers and a fixed lens which exposes light directly onto photo-sensitive Ilfochrome paper. As the prints are not enlarged from negatives the resulting images are grainless and exceptionally detailed. The artist took his camera obscura to California to photograph Yosemite National Park and produced this magnificent image of the glacial Yosemite Valley within the park. Yosemite means "killer" in the Miwok languages which are spoken by the Indigenous American groups in the area and Yosmite Valley, depicted in this work, stands around 7.5 mi long and 3,000–3,500 ft deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan.