Size contributes to the expressive meaning of an image, my black & white analogue photographs printed on 8”x10” fiber paper are modestly formatted. Contrast and value range matter expressively. In order to highlight sobriety, I keep the contrast close. The fiber paper gives the images a tactile velvet touch.
The events recorded in my photographs, often in places of significant artistic importance, read as a still travelogue, a notebook of cemeteries visited. Black and white, they resemble gipsoteca assemblages of great moments of art from the distant past seen in galleries at dusk before closing time.
Photographs are shadows of the world. Once and only once, the selected present, never existing before, never to return is the event of the photograph. The camera-woman walks about searching this locale and that, collecting coincident of shapes and atmosphere in a dimming world. In her reverie, she is among the Shades.
