Raimo Lielbriedis
The works were made using the acacia-resin print technique. The technique is also known as gummidruck in German or dichromate print in English. Since one of its components — alongside ammonium dichromate and various pigments — is gum arabic (acacia resin), I have taken the liberty of introducing this name for the sake of clarity, because gummidruck has nothing to do with rubber.
My works are not photographic art. There are no hidden, contorted ideas in them. There are no superhuman reflections, no sense of absence, no estrangement of the object, nor other strange things. My works are first of all photographs, and then originals that are hard to classify, whose appearance most often matters more than their content.
Using alternative techniques, besides being extraordinarily interesting, allows a photographic image to be brought closer to graphic art. This happens because one of the basic principles of printmaking is observed: the way from matrix to original. As a result the photograph gains new, often unforeseeable visual nuances and moves away from the nature of photography as an endlessly reproducible medium burdened with perfection.
Self-taught. Maker of photographs. Ambrotypist. Teacher at the Janis Rozentāls Art School of the National School of Arts. Maker of pinhole cameras. Alchemist of photography.
The artist's exhibitions
IMPRESSIONS
27.11.2025 - 27.11.2025