Photographer Kate Baker took a journey across Europe traversing the roots of myth and faerie tale, capturing each step of her path with vintage film cameras. In true archetypal style it became a journey both interior and exterior. This story, The Tower, in collaboration with Phoebe Rose Lines, is the first in the series arising, Breathing Stories.

Phoebe Rose Lines is a writer steeped in faerie tale. The language of story is written in her bones, and through this she explores the archetypes of our inner psychology. The Tower has emerged in response to Kate’s images and is intended to be an exploration of the archetypal journey, and a distillation of the essence of myth and faerie tale, that allows all of us to bring ourselves to the story.

The exhibition includes a sequence of silver gelatin photographs accompanied by pasteups of the story and is intended to be viewed as a journey. The photographs have been made using a process Kate created with paper negatives and various other darkroom processes such as lith. There is an accompanying book, ‘The Tower’.

Biography

Kate j Baker an Australian fine art photographer. She studied at the Australian Centre of Photography, with further studies under master printers Gordon Undy, Michael A Smith and Paula Chamlee. Since 2005 she has exhibited in galleries in Australia and Europe and has gallery representation in Berlin. Her work is held in collections internationally.

Primarily using vintage cameras and embracing monochrome expression, these handcrafted gelatin silver prints were made in her darkroom in Warburton.

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