Category: portraits
Style and the Imagination
Kiran October 12, 2019 I was asked about my photographic style, and it was hard to resist a Yoda-style syntactical variation. I could feel the words pushing themselves out of my mouth. “Find you, it will. Seek it not, for there, the path is, to the dark side.” Yet this question was coming from a […]
What Was Ours
What Was Ours on Susuni Mountain, Wanchari clan, near Tarime, Tanzania, 2018. Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negative Printed 2018 10″x8″ The young girl on the left was recently cut, but her friend, on the right, ran away when about to be cut. Since then, and […]
Swirling in from Vapor
2. Swirling in from Vapor, Mbalawala, near Dodoma, Tanzania, 2017Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negativePrinted 201810″x8″ Rahel Hezeroni Msagala, a former ngariba who is now an anti-FGM/C activist and bringing communities in her area to abandon or supplant the practice. This is the second image of ‘From […]
Mike Ware, VA, 2014 – a new print
Mike Ware, Madison County, VA. 2014, platinum-palladium (1:1) print on Arches Platine from a digital negative. Printed 2018. 25x20cm Last November, 2017, I posted about a platinum-palladium print that made from a digital capture rendered as a PiezoDN negative. The Arches Platine paper, with its texture and warmth, was new to me, and I have […]
Mike Ware, VA, 2014
Mike Ware, Madison County, Virginia, October 26, 2014. Platinum-palladium print on Arches platine, from an enlarged negative of the orginal digital photograph. 28cmx28cm Really geeky technical details: The original was made with a Leica M 240, Summilux-M 1:1.4/35 ASPH. The enlarged negative was printed on Pictorico UP OHP film with an Epson 4900, using […]
Francisco Lopez
Francisco Lopez Cerrano, Coyolillo, Honduras, 1995. Scan from 8×10 negative An image I never printed properly, and now, it’s time has come.