Uri Gershuni

Yesterday’s Sun is a new book by photographer Uri Gershuni that returns to the origins of photography in order to meditate upon its future. Gershuni travelled to the home of photography’s inventor, William Henri Fox Talbot, in Lacock, England, where he photographed Talbot’s home and its environs. Gershuni used a digital pin-hole camera that he made by replacing the lens with a tiny hole. The long exposures that resulted re-capture a materiality eluded by the ‘reproducibility’ of digital photography. Gershuni’s frames capture elements of surprise - stains of light – amongst other motifs, that resemble the remains of some invisible ghost.  Interspersed amongst these grainy epitaphs are a series of nude photographs featuring a young man posing in a stark room.