Weather Station/Wave Hill is positioned on the lawn in front of Glyndor Gallery to make daily photographs recording the path of the sun. The housing contains a camera with an internal mechanism to develop the cyanotype photographs. The station functions with two major elements of the weather, solar energy and rainwater. The rain is captured in a basin on the top of the structure. Each day, a piece of paper, coated with a cyanotype emulsion, is exposed for the entire day. At midnight it is developed - the unexposed emulsion washes off with water, leaving a negative image in light to dark blue tone. The results from each day are displayed in the gallery, as a record of the weather conditions and changing sun position from June through August.

Stefan Hagen’s Crossing the Upper Bay/One Day is featured in the light boxes at the Bowling Green MTA Station. It is a series of photographs exposed over the duration of travel across New York’s Upper Bay on the Staten Island Ferry. Hagen did the photography for The History of Photography As Seen Through The Spira Collection, one of the most important collections of photographic equipment. His artist book, I was There, was published by Bonnie & Morgan Press, and he has collaborated on video installations for performances.

Weather Station/Wave Hill, 2005
mixed media
45” x 30” x 30”
Courtesy of the artist