Intrigued by the printing process of newspapers, I set out to photograph backlit newspaper images with a macro lens to uncover the detail hidden from the eye. Technically, all printed images are halftone images – there are only four different colours of ink: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (Key) =CMYK. Therefore any colour printed is done so by using halftones and these four colours.
Because these halftones are so small, they aren’t really visible from the normal reading distance, and the eye blurs they together to create millions of different colours – forming a visible printed image.
