Thoughts of a Night Sea

Thoughts of a Night Sea presents Garry Fabian Miller's most recent series of photographic works, although the term photography describes them only in the broadest sense. Since 1985 Garry Fabian Miller has worked without camera or film, using the first principles of photography to explore the alchemical action of light and chemicals on paper. His artistic language - like that of other cameraless photographers such as Adam Fuss and Susan Derges - is essentially abstract and his raw material is light itself. His methods look back to those of the early pioneers of photography in the 1830s and 1840s, but in his return to the basics - the fundamentals of form and colour - Garry Fabian Miller continues to move his medium forward and has a deserved reputation as one of the most progressive artists working with photography today.
This powerful and poetic group of pictures has prompted the writer Lavinia Greenlaw's meditations on Fabian Miller's imaginary world, and their collaboration on this publication has given rise to a book that is equally a celebration of Fabian Miller's work and an artwork in itself.