The Process

Matthew Marigold is a graduate from the Ontario College of Art & Design who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography. He is currently working as a freelance photographic artist who bases his work on the studies of early 20th century Surrealism. All of Matthew's artwork is shot on film and hand printed. He achieves the high contrast and color saturation through a development called cross-processing. This involves developing transparency film (slide film) in the regular C-41 chemicals. As a result, the transparency is now a negative rather than a positive. He selects his frames accordingly; choosing which ones will need further manipulation. Matthew then cuts, burns and stitches the pieces of the now re-constructed negative fragments together. Therefore, the subject becomes limitless without the need for digital manipulation.