Sarah Cusack, PPE Conflict Portraits Overlay B&W (ART & CONCEPTUAL 2024)

Digital Photograms of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) similar to those worn by healthcare and aid workers in recent conflict zones. Violence against workers or obstruction of healthcare reported in conflict zones reached record high. Detailing arrests, kidnappings, killing of workers and damage to or destruction of health facilities. PPE provides protection from infectious particles but not from these dangers and varying psycho emotional states suffered over time from working in these conditions. The diaphanousness of PPE allows a photographic inverse like the alternative dark room, camera-less imaging process of creating photograms. Using a digital process also allows an inverse of colour and luminosity while maintaining a likeness to medical imaging.

Images have been resized for web display, which may cause some loss of image quality. Note: Original high-resolution images are used for judging.