A MEMORY VERSUS A MOMMENT

Why photogravure feels more like a memory than a moment.

If digital photos freeze time, photogravure frees it. 

The medium of photogravure distils experience into feeling, becoming more about memory than the moment itself.

Photogravure doesn’t capture an instant. It captures an atmosphere. The detail is there, yes - but softened, shrouded in ink and texture. Shadows pool. Light drifts. Focus wavers just enough to invite you in.

That whisper of a suggestion is powerful. Because memory, unlike photography, isn’t sharp.

Digital photography offers a timestamp. Photogravure is timeless. 

Where the digital image preserves, photogravure transforms. It turns a moment into an object - something physical, layered, imperfect.

The etching process alters the image subtly with each print. No two are exactly alike. It’s as if memory itself is being etched into the paper - not through fidelity, but through interpretation.

We’re not looking at a perfect rendering of what was. 

We’re encountering the ghost of it.

Photogravure works the way memory does: slowly, impressionistically, emotionally. It strips away the extraneous, sharpening nothing but sensation.