"Simon Conti has been a photographer whose training centered on the negative, the transparency and consequential print. The 21st century dominance of digital output with its almost metronomic consistency has given him the opportunity to realise that 'wet photography' and its combination of the human touch and chemical changes was missing from his output - the happy accident was not so evident in digital output. The search for a less reliable process quickly arrived at the intaglio and more precisely photo polymer process. This has reinvigorated him to once more set forth with camera and discover outcomes that were taken through the printing press and not the printer.
Inevitably, this has incorporated the computer and printer in earlier acquisition of the image and the creation of acetate positives from which the plates are produced. The human accidents that occur in the print process do however offer outcomes which give subtle and exciting variations. This process combines well with a photographer's eye."