THE ORGAN I (2026), TOM LIGGETT.

This project builds from HELIOS, where I reached the limits of photographic materiality. Photography has largely confined itself to its own apparatus, relying on the camera, lens and light-sensitive surfaces to produce an image. Rather than remain within these boundaries, I began exploring processes beyond both analogue and digital photography. Through material research, I developed ORGAN I, a fragile form made from sodium alginate and infused with liquid photographic emulsion, allowing it to be exposed in three dimensions.

ORGAN (DEATH) I emerged from the feeling that ORGAN I was not the final work. It existed closer to a latent image than a resolved piece. To bring it to completion and devlop the final image, I sliced the form and placed it directly onto 20 × 24 inch Ilford fibre-based photographic paper, producing a photogram from its remains. The resulting print is entirely unique, formed through a single act that cannot be replicated in the same way again.

ORGAN I: BIRTH

THE ORGAN IN EXHIBITION