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Fine Art & Experimental Photographer
About Ashley Wong
In 2019, Ashley Wong submerged a century-old platinum-palladium printing apparatus in distilled seawater for 72 hours, then used the corroded plates to produce 'Tidal Decay,' a series of photograms that mapped electrochemical erosion as luminous topography. That act crystallized her lifelong inquiry: how material vulnerability can become a co-author in image-making. She doesn’t manipulate light digitally; she engineers its behavior through custom-built optical filters layered with biodegradable polymers, capturing exposures that shift hue depending on ambient humidity. Her studio in Lisbon operates as a hybrid darkroom-lab where fungal cultures grow on gelatin emulsions, and infrared sensors trigger shutter releases only when ambient CO₂ levels dip below 420 ppm, introducing ecological thresholds into photographic timing. Her work has been cited in conservation science journals for redefining archival stability, not as preservation but as intentional, timed dissolution. This isn’t photography about time, it’s photography calibrated *by* time’s physical signatures.
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- “How did the seawater experiment change your approach to emulsion chemistry?”
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