We are pleased to participate in the 2026 edition of the CONTACT Photography Festival with works by Tash Damjanovic. This project brings together recent series of work that reflects the artist’s ongoing engagement with image-making and perception.
"This series was taken at a time that felt like the weight of life had lifted for a while. During this reprieve, I had a peculiar feeling that I was floating through life, unmoored, and was reminded that the world could feel light and colourful again. I have previously associated night with darkness, quiet, and fear. In this series, the night reveals the city in full splendor. These images do not deny the chaos and exhaustion of urban life; instead, they uncover a softer, more luminous layer within it. Standing in front of them, the viewer can pause, breathe, and experience the city not as a place of constant demand, but as a site of unexpected serenity and wonder."
Made through an emulsion transfer process, each image is lifted from its original polaroid frame and re-situated—placed, softened, and subtly distorted—into a new context. The textures, tears, and irregularities are not defects, but traces of transformation. Some pieces are further painted or otherwise altered. What remains is as tender and imperfect as memory—like joy, like life—held in a state of fragile suspension. As the image floats in water before it finally settles on paper, it mirrors the artist's own sense of drifting through that moment in time.
