capturing presence through light and contact.
Oliver Bernardi (b.1991) creates lasting, tangible documents of the fleeting. With over a decade in the darkroom experimenting and refining his image making techniques and processes, he blends lens and contact contact printing to shed light upon his innate curiosities in the development of striking and profound imagery. Utilizing iconographic natural symbols, his iterative process seeks to provide proof of presence in camera and in the darkroom alike.
Process
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Straight Photography
Lens based image making
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Transparencies
Negatives
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Cyanotypes
UV prints
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Alternative Process
Black and white darkroom
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Alternative Process II
Colour Darkroom
ÆTHER
Series
2025
A metaphotographic series of alternative-process darkroom prints.
REFLECT
2024
A single frame, a dreamlike invitation to reflect.
SPAZUK/BERNARDI
2022 - 2023
A collaboration between fumage artist, Steven Spazuk and Oliver Bernardi.
CAPS
2020 - 2021
‘CAPS’ (Channeling Acute Pressure Series) is a meditation on process - a fossil of a manifested creative intention. A beautifully chaotic and unintentional landscape - a reliquary for the often discarded.
About
Services
Photography
Printmaking
STUDIO
Montreal
Canada
Education
Dawson Professional Photography
Concordia University, Photography
Exhibitions
CAPS, 2021
Art Basel Miami, 2023
SCOPE Miami, 2022
Contact
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