Ryan Gander
Latent Lament (Unoxidised Silver on Paper) & Pure Oxidised Silver on Paper
Latent Lament (work on left)
A sealed photographic bag containing an undeveloped photograph by Ryan Gander
45 x 30cm

Pure Oxidised Silver on Paper (work on right)

An 8” x 10” photographic print showing a close up of the worlds ‘blackest black’ paint, produced by a team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Britain. Developed for use in the space exploration industry, the ‘blackness’ consists of a coating that
will be used on the interior of the Hubble Space Telescope to improve its vision and is produced by a very lengthy chain of chemical processes, involving nickel sulphate and sodium hypophosphite. This produces a phosphorus coating. Then the surface is etched with
nitric acid to produce the super-black surface structure.