This compelling work of mixed media fine art photography stands as a stellar, museum-grade benchmark from the conceptual series The Infinite by artistic duo Hunter & Gatti. The project intentionally bypasses human sensory limitations by employing black and white infrared photography to capture light wavelengths outside the narrow visible spectrum, presenting a dramatic and unfamiliar reality. Printed on premium fine art metallic paper with a luminous pearlescent coating, the haunting portrait of a man in a cowboy hat has been meticulously altered by the artists using physical surface scratches and aggressive red acrylic brushwork across the face.
The “visible” spectrum, is probably the most well-known of human sensory limitations, as the human #eye is only capable of perceiving light at wavelengths between 390 and 750 nanometers. Of course, calling it the “visible” spectrum is a bit of a misnomer, as plenty of animals are capable of perceiving light with frequencies outside this relatively narrow band of electromagnetic radiation. Using infrared black and white photography, the images shift, as you just saw, the greens become almost white and the blues a dramatic dark. The colors are not distorted, a different part of the spectrum is simply captured, it is another reality, it totally differs from the reality we know, that is why cameras and films have been always prepared to eliminate ultraviolet and infrared light, so that their results is the one that human eye sees, and that´s what we change.
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