This project initially started out as a small idea that rapidly grew in scope.
The name of the project - Beacons Through Time - comes from a standing exhibit at the National Lighthouse Museum in Staten Island, which I visited as part of the research for this project and from which I left with a strong sense of vision and theme. There’s much in common there with the beacons that line our shores and rivers, many dating back centuries and still proudly standing watch. Nevertheless, the sun maintains its drumbeat rhythm, a skyward sentinel that provides us with light and life. Early solargraphs that helped inspire me to pursue lighthouses as a subject: Presbyterian Church in Morristown Parish House. In them, you can see cloudy days, storms, even times when the cameras are covered in snow and ice. Solargraphs are long-standing and capture a steady, constant daily cycle. For my next project, I thought, what better subject than lighthouses?!īut the more I thought about it, the more I saw a deep connection between the format and subject. I had completed an earlier local solargraph project in the depths of Covid, and my favorite images all had a common element – a tall building or structure juxtaposed against the sun’s leaping arcs. My interest in lighthouse solargraphy started out, oddly enough, as a purely aesthetic interest. Early solargraphs that helped inspire me to pursue lighthouses as a subject: Morristown NJ Green Civil War Memorial Statue
In combination, these two elements allow exposure times in the months or even years when placed in situ, solargraphs patiently record the sun’s transit across the sky in long arcs, as well as slowly exposing landscape and foreground elements. Solargraphs typically use darkroom paper instead of film, which has an ISO in the single digits. As pinhole cameras, their aperture hovers between f/150 and f/300, barely sipping any light. Beacons Through Time: East Coast US lighthouses captured on solargraphs - EMULSIVE Close Search for:įor those who are unfamiliar, solargraphs are cameras with the exposure triangle tilted in the extreme towards long exposure.
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