Ryan Gander

One in a series of photographs, each photograph is individually numbered from it's negative. The numbers on each print vary according to the transparencies registration and time documented on the film. An 8'' x 10'' photographic print showing a close up of the worlds blackest black paint, produced by a team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Britain. Developed for use in the space exploration industry, the 'blackness' consists of a coating that will be used on the interior of the Hubble Space Telescope to improve its vision and is produced by a very lengthy chain of chemical processes, involving nickel sulphate and sodium hypophosphite. This produces a phosphorus coating. Then the surface is etched with nitric acid to produce the super-black surface structure. A 5cm square coverage averages out at about five hundred British Pounds.