When Christopher Eggleston, the man attributed with pioneering colour photography, first discovered the dye-transfer process, he knew he had found something amazing. Eggleston introduced the dye-transfer to his previous work and the results were astonishing, indeed they were some of his most famous and striking works.

Eggleston’s 1973 photograph entitled ‘The Red Ceiling’ is possibly one of his most famous. Of ‘The Red Ceiling’, Eggleston, a man who would never be caught short without an ample supply of memory cards, said: “The Red Ceiling is so powerful, that in fact I’ve never seen it reproduced on the page to my satisfaction. When you look at the dye it is like red blood that’s wet on the wall…A little red is usually enough, but to work with an entire red surface was a challenge.” Possibly Eggleston is a bit of a perfectionist as ‘The Red Ceiling’ is truly an astonishing photograph, regardless of slight differences in the hue of the red colour in different copies.