© Barbara Diener
Ghost hunting, occult phenomena, and the fascination with using light sensitive materials to uncover or expose the immaterial world has been a recurring desire since the dawn of photographic history. In 2015, after completing a series of photographs of small rural towns, photographer Barbara Diener met a woman named Kathy, whose family farm was haunted by her husband's ancestors. Using what Diener describes as "traditional and contemporary methods for capturing the invisible," and no Photoshop or post-production editing whatsoever, Diener embarked on a photographic journey to search for evidence of the spirits Kathy described. I spoke with Diener to learn more about her latest series Phantom Power, which Daylight Books will publish as a monograph in 2018.
Interview by Jon Feinstein