PHOTOACCESS is very excited to be holding  an exclusive one-off presentation by Uruguayan photographer Roberto Fernández-Ibáñez tomorrow.

In a rare opportunity to hear from an international artist, Fernández-Ibáñez will discuss his career and darkroom-based practice working with cameraless experimental photography.

Fernández-Ibáñez is visiting Australia for his exhibition ‘Mountains of Uncertainty’, which is being shown in Sydney in May  as part of the Head On Photo Festival.

After seeing his  works at Fotofest (in Houston, Texas USA) earlier this month, critic W.M. Hunt wrote in The Eye of Photography Magazine: “[Roberto Fernández-Ibáñez’s] hand worked, ephemerally delicate and seemingly modest work challenges the gigantism of big colour pieces of glaciers and trash. Upon closer inspection the handsome oddness proves to be layered and textured reconsiderations of individual gelatine silver prints of drawings he has made of flow chart graphs from the internet. The artist manipulates the emulsion to create profiles of mountain-like shapes of gray and sepia, like 19th Century engravings of unknown topographies.”

Fernández-Ibáñez originally studied chemistry and is a self-taught photographer. He develops and prints his works using his own formulas, making each of them unique. Besides Photography, he designs and makes artist’s books that include haiku and prose of his own authorship, drawing, calligraphy, photography and mixed media.

Roberto Fernández-Ibáñez, at PhotoAccess, Manuka Arts Centre Thursday, May 5 noon- 1pm, FREE, but places are limited to 25. Bookings to  eventbrite.com.au