photography

eLisa Pancratz’s analogue photographic works are generated using old SX-70 Polaroid Landcameras, a 35 mm ‘Nicomat’ reflex camera from the 1970s, or a 120s roll film Vredeborch felica camera from the 1950s. Her photographic results often remain “untouched”. Indicators of shortcomings, such as scratches, dust, colour shifts or blurring, remain in her works and are declared to be aleatoric aspects of the stylistic device. The “photographic fault” which points back to the process of creation, preserves a platform as a visual event and therefore becomes an emotional moment of her photography. Thereby she develops a distinct “counter-image” to the nowadays omnipresent perfect digital image world and makes room for the “fragility of non-perfection”.