Bountiful Harvest Redux scans continue Jeff Moorfoot’s Scan works through a return to the garden—not as subject, but as source. Moorfoot gathers leaves, stems and fragments, handles them, and reassembles them into constructed images. The flatbed scanner remains central. It brings these elements into contact and holds them in place with direct clarity.

The works carry a quiet familiarity. Their tonal range and surface recall earlier photographic processes, but without replication. Moorfoot draws on references that sit loosely in the background—Edward Weston, Karl Blossfeldt—alongside the memory of darkroom materials: Agfa papers, Record Rapid, Portriga, and the tonal language of collodion processes. These are not quotations so much as traces, shaping how the images sit rather than how they declare themselves.

What emerges is a body of work that feels both precise and open. The compositions are considered, but not rigid. Each arrangement holds a balance between structure and contingency, where small shifts in form or placement carry weight. The scanner records without hierarchy, flattening the distinction between object and image, surface and depth.

Within Scan, Bountiful Harvest Redux sits as a continuation rather than a departure—where these Bountiful Harvest Redux scans refine an approach that treats photography not as capture, but as a process of gathering and arrangement.

In this context, the work becomes a kind of artefact. The images have never been near a camera or a darkroom, yet they retain an echo of those histories. Bountiful Harvest Redux sits within Scan as a continuation rather than a departure—refining an approach that treats photography not as capture, but as a process of gathering, arranging and looking closely.

CREDITS

Artist
Jeff Moorfoot

Series
Bountiful Harvest Redux from Scan

Exhibition
SCAN, Maud Gallery, 2020

Medium
Scanning process and digital archival print, Limited Edition

Enquiries
Pricing and availability on request via Maud Gallery.