Andrew Child Photography: Portfolio

Invisible Boston: Portrait of a City in Infrared
Gallery Exhibition, Children's Hospital Boston
March - June, 2007

There’s just something fascinating about light we cannot see. Beyond the deepest shades of red the human eye can perceive lies the infrared. Colors we don’t have words to describe mix with shades of light and dark that often seem backwards.

It’s a strange world but one that is just as real as the world we are used to seeing.

For several decades, photographers have been shooting film and, more recently, digital photographs in infrared light. Until recently, however, these photos have been limited to black-and-white and the false-color imagery of color IR film.

Five years ago, I realized that a little known defect in digital cameras could be exploited to create infrared photographs that have the colors we associate with the everyday world mapped onto the tonal range of infrared light.

The result is a unique series of photographs that are hauntingly surreal, dreamlike, and carry a sense of other place and other time while remaining intimately familiar. They are both utterly impossible and just as true as the view out your office window.

With this exhibit, I hope to share my fascination for this invisible city with you or – if nothing else – give you something to ponder on the elevator ride back up to that office.

The Invisible Boston exhibition is composed of one-dozen, limited edition, museum-quality, archival photographs that are available for purchase. Please contact me for details.

Invisible Boston is the premiere exhibit for the front lobby gallery of the Children's Hospital Boston facility at 1295 Bolyston Street. Access is limited to employees of the hospital and approved visitors.