![]() His camera is whichever x-ray machine is powerful enough for the job and he eschews digital photography, instead using ultra-large format 11x14in film, which he says allows the images their "exquisite" detail. Nearly 20 years later, Turvey is the artist in residence at the British Institute of Radiology and has x-ray-imaged everything from rabbits in hats to motorcycles. "From that point on things changed for me." To the radiologists it's just a part of everyday imaging but for me it was a bucket of beautiful photography," says Turvey. "It was just one of those moments where you thought, 'God, this is amazing'. ![]() Asked by a music industry friend to investigate using an x-ray image for an album cover, Turvey went to the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead, north London, where the radiologists let him look through a bucket of discarded x-rays. The inspiration to paint with x-ray light came in 1996, while Turvey was an apprentice under the great rock photographer Gered Mankowitz. There is no right equipment for me, it depends on the object itself," he says. "I've used equipment from just about every industry that uses x-ray technology, from medical to air security through to industrial applications. For a delicate flower, he would use a smaller x-ray device similar to those you find in a dentist's surgery. For a large and dense object, such as an elephant's skull, he might use an industrial-scale machine. Turvey chooses different strengths of x-rays depending on what he is photographing. The more dense an object, the more likely that even x-rays will be absorbed, which is why your dense bones stop x-rays while your less dense muscle and fat allows them to pass through. ![]() ![]() The difference is that x-ray photons are at a much higher energy, meaning that they can penetrate solid objects. X-ray radiation is like visible light it too is made up of photons. It's so plain to see that you can't really ignore the truth of it," he says. "It's such an amazing contortion of the physiology of a foot… x-ray photography reveals that deeper understanding of it. ![]()
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