Liz Steketee’s website here.
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part X)
Caption (image above): ‘One Love, One Heart #5’, linocut printing on fabric with embroidery over digitized photographs (by Sofia Silva). More about Jennifer West‘s work here. Rita Gonzalez, author of Jennifer West: Across Time and Through Media (excerpts): West came out of DIY media scenes in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s, where e robust…
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part VII)
Caption (image above): lumen/chemigram (by Sofia Silva). More about Ross Faircloth‘s work here. Ross Faircloth about Dark Grandeur (excerpt): This series of works focuses on the darkroom and printing aspect of photography as a means for pure expression, as the camera and act of photographing takes backstage, or a supporting role. This is accomplished by…
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The complex task of pleasurable image-making
photo caption (above): Sofia Silva, ‘Ego support #2’, from the project ‘The Orchestra’, 2011. Fine Art print, 60x70cm. I started teaching soon after finishing an MFA in Glasgow. Since then, I’ve often remember something one of my tutors told me before I came back to Portugal. He warned me that choosing to teach could be…
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part V)
Caption (image above): lumen on expired 120 ektachrome film (by Sofia Silva) More about Nobuhiro Nakanishi‘s work here. Nobuhiro Nakanishi: “The theme of my work is ‘the physical that permeates into the art piece.’ In a foggy landscape, we no longer see what we are usually able to see – the distance to the…
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part IV)
Caption (image above): lumen on expired 4×5” ektachrome film (by Sofia Silva) More about Jacqueline Butler‘s work here. Jacqueline Butler: “Glass and Paper Landscapes evolved from a study of the collection of negatives and prints of the photographer and author Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) held in the Insight Photographic Archive at the National Media…
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part III)
Caption (image above): image of filter used for anthotype work (by Sofia Silva) More about Katie Kalkstein‘s work here. … More about Tina Rowe‘s work here. Tina Rowe: “This work in the baldest terms comes from a series of negatives that were found in a bin with other items related to photography. It seems…
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Cindy Steiler: (re)creating with thread
Bellow Cindy Steiler‘s words: My favorite childhood memories center on spending time with my great-grandmother, Mary Steiler. She taught me to sew, quilt and embroider, all while sharing amazing stories about her life. What she passed to me had been passed to her along a long line of women, inspiring in me a lifelong passion…
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