I am particularly interested in Cyr's project, Developer Trays. In this project, he photographs various photographers' developer trays against a black background. What interests me about this project is that Cyr is taking an object or tool used to create an artistic photograph, making it an artifact, and placing those artistic qualities upon it. It is fascinating to see how each tray varies, depending on the type of chemicals used, the tray preferred by the artist, and how the artist handles the tray. It shows the somewhat intimate relationship the photographer had with their tray as they used it to make the thousands of the images we know them for.
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