This would be fun for me to choreograph compositions and work with models that I had a close bond with. I would ask the dancers to participate and model for me. Also growing up, I was a competitive dancer and very involved at my dance studio. H: What made your pictures take off? Were friends sharing them, teachers taking notice?ī: My friends and family would share my work, and my teachers would give me opportunities for recognition and teach me about professionalism early on.
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The other is my precious metals process…that process involves lacquer toners and plays on the barrier between abstract and representational with an antique, nostalgic aesthetic. One of them…by placing the chemigrams in pinhole cameras to double expose and two processes. Through experimenting so much I have been able to create some processes of my own. I cut, collage, sew, and incorporate mixed media. Other times, I manipulate the image after the print is completed. Many of my pieces are never finally fixed so they change color over time, and I see it as a visual experience. I expose my darkroom paper to light, cross-contaminate and mix my chemistry (with plenty of research and safety protocols in place of course), and when something visually exciting happens, I figure out why and that’s what pushes me to keep experimenting. I learn the rules with the intention of breaking them. Do you do this by affecting the film or distorting the images in Photoshop?ī: It depends on what process I’m working with, but I prefer to work analog. H: I know you like to experiment with your photography.
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Sometimes I work without a “subject,” so to speak, and create abstract shapes and lines on the paper with light-sensitive chemistry to convey emotion rather than a person, place, or thing. H: What subjects do you photograph? Do you keep to one subject matter or do a little bit of everything?ī: A little bit of everything – depends on my environment, emotions, what I am trying to convey. But once I started getting more into the advanced photo classes in high school and learned about alternative processes, I started to feel more comfortable calling myself an artist and realized how much freedom photography gave me.
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Herald: When did you start getting into photography?īert: I took my first photography class in 10th grade, and I loved it right away. The 27-year-old artist is widely known both locally and internationally for her camera-less photography, deploying various techniques such as chemigrams, cyanotypes, lumen printing, collages, sewing, and painting.īert talked with the Herald about her work and artistic process in “pushing traditional photography techniques into unconventional circumstances.” The conversation has been edited and condensed. Throughout this month, the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library is showcasing the experimental artwork of New York-based photographer Caroline Bert.