Joy Storm by Simon Procter
".....I added portraits of my ancestors. The titles come from their names. The final artworks represent a long process of deconstruction and reconstruction, over painting, underpainting.
Good memories of family weave with traces of the invisible and the beautiful chaos, a Joy Storm." Simon Procter , Paris, May 2026
The artworks originally began as a high profile adverting campaign that I shot for the famous bed maker Hastens. A wonderful Swedish family company that had gradually become much more than just a client.
At its source it combines highly complex High speed photography with a custom built synchronised detonation system (thank you Serge Roux) The simplest description of the process is bouquets are frozen with liquid nitrogen then exploded from within. It was a long five day shoot with a big wonderful team. And Made possible by a truly enlightened client. The photographs revealed magically something impossible to see, a micro second of destruction and revelation. These images were then reworked over and over for months.
Platinum Palladium prints.
#Collection currently on hold due to fluctuations in precious metal market
The Platinum Palladium prints process
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In a platinum print, the paper is first coated by hand with a solution of light-sensitive platinum salts and left to dry in a process called sensitizing. The negative is then placed in direct contact with the sensitized paper and exposed via either sun or artificial ultraviolet light. Following exposure, the print is put in the developer and the clearing bath before the final wash. After the image is dried, the printer can repeat the process of coating the paper and exposing the negative multiple times if necessary. Deacidification of the paper is the final step, and the process results in a single-layer print with the image embedded in the paper fibers.
