Matthew Brandt and his chromatic photography

Matthew Brandt, artist from Los Angeles, found a way to capture lakes with his photo-camera and turn those photos into an explosion of colors.

For his project 'Lakes and Reservoirs' all he uses are two instruments: his trusty camera and a container of 3 gallon filled with water.

This latter is provided by the lakes in the western coast of the United States that he has been photographing for quite a long time. He makes his own C-prints and has taught himself how color photographs get made.
After taking the picture he collects the water in the container and once the photos get printed, Brandt uses the liquid to immerse them in and lets them macerate for a couple of days or even months, giving time to the image to modify itself with chromatic effects.
The water alters the pictures and shows us the lakes in a different form, waking our imagination up by making us observe them in such a peculiar way. Feeling soaked in water, the photos capture more than just the location, changing the space that has been shot and leaving a mark, turning them into liquid visions and intriguing rainbows with sensational colors.
As to what brought him to start this project he explains, "I was interested in using the subject's fluid to make its own image.

It was about the interaction between the subject and the photograph.

I guess that is a theme in a lot of my work."
Matthew Brandt is currently exhibiting his many photographic experiments at the Columbus Museum of Art until the 9th of March 2014.