Laurie Reynolds is an artist who makes work by experimenting with various interventions in the Photographic process, creating incidental marks and imagery on film, sometimes without using a camera.

After Process is a visual exploration of process, and the effects of entropy and indeterminacy within it and has been Reynolds’ main focus over the past few years. Five experimental processes have been devised, each one different from the other with differing results:

Process 1: ‘Using water native to a photographed site in film development’

Process 2: ‘Radiation during Exposure’ Process 3: ‘Developed film returned to native water from photographed site’

Process 4: ‘Extended development period using Dry Developer/plaster mix’

Process 5: ‘Oxidising Silver on film at various stages with Liver of Sulpher’

The resultant imagery, examples shown in this website, are different from what you may expect of photography, an almost abstracted image of a place or environment made with an intentional yet uncontrolled process. The viewer is not held by a defined space but can explore freely. Hints of recognisable imagery are decontextualized by marks not so familiar.