Artist Statement
My photography is totally analog. I use a 4” x 5” pinhole camera because of its simplicity, distinctive soft focus, and requisite long exposures that better record time and movement. I pose for my own photographs because I want to be part of each step of the image making, but my presence in the image is incidental, and I don’t feel it reveals much about me. Photographs are timeless, so I try to avoid props such as clothing or objects that would provide a temporal context. I’m very interested in the chemical nature of photography. I develop my film in a coffee-based, homebrew developer which gives me a negative that is suitable for printing, and is more environmentally friendly than commercial chemical developers. My prints are made by hand coating cotton rag paper with a Ziatype or Cyanotype emulsion and exposing the paper, with it’s negative, under UV light. This process is unpredicable, often resulting in grainy images, and significant tone shifts. Sometimes, I age and patinate the photograph by waxing, rubbing, or scratching the surface. Subsequently, many of my photographs are unique and impossible to reproduce. In my process, I am singularily involved in making the photograph.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.
Community Partner Sponsor for Open Studio Hudson 2022. https://timeandspace.org
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.
Community Partner Sponsor for Open Studio Hudson 2022. https://timeandspace.org
Community Partner Sponsor for Open Studio Hudson 2022. https://timeandspace.org