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published by Carlotta Luke Photography 66 Southover High Street Lewes, East , BN7 1JA, UK www.carlottaluke.com PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARLOTTA LUKE Copyright © Carlotta Luke 2020 Previous pages: photogram of the ropes used to store and light rookies on

i have been a professional photographer for most of my life and a Lewesian for the last 15 years. Lewes has proved a rich source of creative inspiration, not just for my portraiture but in all my work, kindling a lifelong fascination with people’s sense of place and belonging. For a photographer, Bonfire Night is a challenging subject matter, what with the extremes of light and dark, the continuous movement of the procession and the jostle of the crowds—not to mention dodging exploding bangers! It’s also hugely fun. I was one of Southover Bonfire Society’s official photographers for three years, but even as a spec­tator I’ve never been able to leave my camera bag at home on Bonfire Night. cyanotype is one of the earliest darkroom printing techniques. It was invented in the 1840s as a method to reproduce drawings. The cyan-blue colour of the print gave its name to those copies, or blueprints. For this series, I printed the original digital file onto acetate to create a new negative. I then painted cyanotype solution onto paper and printed each image by hand. The beauty of cyanotype is in the slight variation of each print. Somehow, taking a clean, precise digital image through this traditional hand-printing process echoes the complexity of Bonfire. Photographs can be reproduced, but each hand-printed cyanotype image is unique. Bonfire is so much about the past and tradition, following in the footsteps of our ancestors, yet for over 200 years, no two Bonfire nights have ever been the same.

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