Black and White Photographs

Artists Describing Their Art:

Karen Morecroft - My work is primarily based on my experiences of the city, including my travels through the US & Europe. Documentation is an important feature of my work as it is where I collect my source material, which is a key element to the images I create. My work relies on photographic and found imagery along with collected objects from many varied sources, including the mass media. Layering, repetition and opacity are key elements of of my work that strive to reflect a certain nostalgia....

Gregory Prescott - He who shines the light that reflects off the skin, intricately created masterpieces, one by one, with much detail like fingers to touch, eyes to see and lips to kiss. He who shines the light gave her breast to feed, feet to walk the land and a tongue to taste the fruit that dangle from the branches that sway to the breeze from his breath. Our bodies are the testimony of the first creation of art. We wear the light like it is a robe. And I reveal to you the true beauty that I see. We are the result of his fine art. My models become the earth, the emotional Ocean, sensuous exotic creatures, tempting forbidden fruit. My work consists of an array of photographs of portraits and nudes. With my work, I allow everyone to see the true and outstanding beauty of a woman's curves, the fullness of her lips, the textures of her hair and the grace in the extensions of her arms. I also display the broadness in the man's back, the signs of struggle in his shoulders and the determination in his eyes. In my photographs, one may witness the essence, sensuality, strong ...

Alison Watt Jackson - I find myself drawn to photographing ordinary images that most commonly are overlooked or passed by. In addition to photographing the "ordinary" into something extraordinary, I personally find myself drawn to old, and discarded objects and the stories they have to tell. I have a tremendous amount of empathy and connection to such treasures. ...

Jym Shipman - Once Upon a time in the early nineteen seventies there was a boy. This boy was very sick and had to live on a bed in a plastic oxygen bubble. Due to his illness he was alone without the usual ways to meet people and make friends. One day the boy's mother brought him a box of crayons and a pad of paper. He took the tools he was given and created a new life for himself. In this new life he created a healthy boy with friends and a world that understood and accepted him. Weeks had past and the boy soon left the "real" world to never come back. Weeks turned into years and the boy's mother greatly missed him. The mother reached into the boy's new world, with the help of a great doctor. Together the mother and the doctor did what they thought was best for the boy and brought him back to their "real" world. In the years since, the boy has grown into a man. His physical health has improved. However, because of his travels when he was a boy, he remained between the two worlds. This leaves the man today...

Jym Shipman - S Brian Berkun - Statement Brian personally prints each photograph using traditional black and white silver based processing on fiber paper, toning the prints in a selenium toning solution. Additional processing steps in the darkroom contribute to archival permanence. Some of his photos include handcoloring selected areas of the photograph which adds greater visual depth and interest to the image. Current works focus on historic subject matter found in the primitive and remote areas of Utah, and modern day "roadside attractions". Travels into remote areas of the desert Southwest have yielded images of ancient America. Traveling the backroads he has found a wealth of subject matter left over from the time before there was the national interstate highway program of the'60's. These images, combined with hand coloring, have provided a direction in his work reminiscent of picture postcards of the'50's. ...