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Para-photo-mancy (Ocean)
Attuning to the meta-chemical world of kelp, seaweed and saltwater, using experimental photographic methods. Imaging (imagining) a shifting register of ocean salinity, pressure, temperature.![Spectral Ecologies](https://www.samnightingale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Spectral-Ecologies-Thumb-2_650x434px.jpg)
Spectral Ecologies
A collaborative research project and exhibition exploring the changing technologies of cinema as a method for creating and perceiving the worlds that surround us. Responding to the Mallee, a semi-arid region of south-east Australia.![Cinetracts](https://www.samnightingale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/682_DE-thumb.jpg)
NIKEL
An exploration into dark/dirty ecology in the far-north town of Nikel in Russia. Produced while participating in an art and research project that brought artists, philosophers and environmental researchers together in the Arctic Circle.![Spectral Conjuring](https://www.samnightingale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Spectral-Conjuring_thumb.jpg)
SPECTRAL CONJURING OF A CINEMATIC PRESENT
Part of a photo-essay that appears in The Cinemas Project Book, visualising many of the spectral spaces of cinema.![Picture has not been checked](https://www.samnightingale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The-Remains_Thumb.jpg)
THE REMAINS
Rather than focusing on images of the cinemas or the films they screened, this photographic project looks to the archive and the tangible remains that are left behind: the manila folders that contain architect reports...![Picture has not been checked](https://www.samnightingale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/01_Picture-Has-Not-Been-Checked-Thumb.jpg)
Picture Has Not Been Checked
The changing life of film is taken up in this artists’ book, which results from collecting recycled film images found on eBay. A new lease of life is given to these films where they become valued commodities traded through digital networks.![Traversal – First Passage](https://www.samnightingale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Traversal_First-Psaage_-thumb.jpg)
Traversal – First Passage
The film Traversal – First Passage is a recording of the artist's journey across Australia (travelling from the bottom to top and back again) viewed out a train window while searching for a relationship with the land traversed.![Olympic Changes: an inadequate document of life](https://www.samnightingale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Olympic-Changes_650px.jpg)