Sam Mills-Williams
Sam Mills-Williams is a process lead photographic artist; who works with
film and chemical manipulation. His interest in manipulation of film, stemmed
from his first year at university. An unexpected accident occurred during the
development of the C-41 film, thus destroying the film rendering the negatives
useless. All the photographs on that film were lost forever. He has started an
exploration of the light sensitive material, collecting the unique destroyed
negatives, either from his own work or a assortment of found end trails of
film, thrown away. He exposes each frame and composes the photograph, as if his
intention was to develop the film in the correct manner. He follows the strict
rules of photography, yet creates an alternative quasi-photographic
representation. The photographs/moments taken; remain unknown, kept solely undisclosed
by the artist. The most important factor is that the viewer becomes intrigued
by the prospect of witnessing a lost moment. He challenges the capabilities of
film, questioning what is photography and discovering new meanings behind the
abstractions left on the negatives.