At the Oslo Negativ photofestival and in collaboration with the Dáidda webgallery, Stig Marlon Weston is exhibiting selected images from the project «Cum grano salis».

Stig Marlon Weston uses photography to study different philosophical ways of looking at the world. He adapts his technique and style acording to the theme and has worked with everything from snapshot cameras and large format photography to home made pinhole cameraboxes and processbased cameraless techniques, but he always uses analog and traditional photo materials as his starting point.

Focusing on what can not be photographed and the lack of measurable objective information in a photograph, Weston has made a series of typological still lifes with minimal subject matter. This project worked as a methodical way fo the photographer to work himself through his own frustration with the photographic medium. The goal was to visualize how photographs never can fully convey the underlying information and truth of a story, while we as viewers automatically seek to fill in any gaps with our own thoughts and expectations.
In Oslo Negativ images from one of the series are shown.

With a series of close up images of a gold buillon these images look at the difference between content and information in a photograph. The same troy ounce of gold has been photographed over time, while the monetary market value of the subject changes, unrelated to what happens to the actual object. The images titles gives the current market price as it is is based on world events and expectations from the economic markets, while the images do not show any relevant information apart from the changes in daylight reflected in the metal surface. The images are photographed over time as the subject stays the same while its usefulness as an investment changes constantly.

Cum grano salis

Cum grano salis (-With a grain of salt) is a project made up of a dozen series of images that spring out of a frustration with the how the photographic medium is dependent upon the content of it´s subject. Working with the idea of the subject-less photograph and within the tradition of typological photography, the images lack of both independent and verified content is exposed.
Each series contains 12 images and studies the measurable variations in a single type of subject. All the images have titles describing this variation while quietly pointing at the amount of information not being conveyd within the pictureframe.
The series show the subjects of gold and the variations in monetary value over a year, the darkness of the night time sky photographed at different hours, cremated remains of people who have died at different stages of life, TV-signals on a screen and their given wavelengths, dust collected in the same space at different intervals, colours placed into the pantone system, the paper weight of different types of white paper, the light from lightbulbs of varying strength, empty space in homes for sale and the corresponding price, the ground and the local noise level, water heating up towards the boiling point and the volume inside empty plastic bags.

2006-2016