Polaroid Photographs

Artists Describing Their Art:

Royane Caldwell - Artist Statement At present, I am almost completely absorbed in visual arts. My academic education consists of western and non-western art, philosophy, music, anatomy, physiology and holistic medicine. I am extremely interested in exploring the relationship between dreams and the collective unconscious and their intuitive reflection expressed in my art. Both my paintings and photography have been shown in a number of venues over the past few years, and are in private as well as corporate collections in Canada and the United States. My search for meaning and my attempts to illustrate contemporary mythology are based on a central certainty of stored remembrances, genetic memories that resonate at our deepest levels. I use organic forms, anatomical structures, icons, and symbolism to draw obscure truths. Art to me is a conduit, crossing the boundaries of seen and unseen, feeling and memory. ...

Tina West - Statement of the artist My still life photographs are sculptural installations, created environments that give new meaning to objects, as their scale is re-addressed through a new place in space and time. All of my still life's feature found objects, including objects that in some manner find me. Together, you and I make each photograph a story. I begin the story with the photograph, but it is your reactions and experiences that complete it. Certainly, I could finish the story as it relates to me, but I am far more interested in the telling of your own story. The photograph is my vision. The story is yours. As an introduction my camera of chose is a 4x5, I consider it a medium large format. The film of choice is Polaroid 59, there is a look and feel that can be found no other way. Now Fuji instant film, as Polaroid is no longer produced. The photographs are scanned and printed as archival pigmented prints. I am a collector of thing or objects. I cannot say what I collect it varies from day to day, or year to year. Ultimately the objects speak to me, or people have given ...

Reza Khatir - Critical reviews (a selection) ::: "Le fotografie di Khatir sono tessere disperse nello spazio e nel tempo, ricucite tuttavia da un'invisibile regista che e l'ordine del vivere di ogni giorno. Un continuo rimando tra realta e immaginazione per cogliere la vita in tutte le sue sfaccettatura." Rudy Chiappini, "Corriere del Ticino" 6 febbraio1982. "Reza Khatir fuhrt seine personlichen Photographienfast ausschliesslich in farbe und mit polaroidfilmen aller formate aus.Darin beweist er eine besondere Sensibilitat fur die fomgestaltung und farbgebung; seine Bildthemen, die um die Gegensatz paare Verhullung-Enthullung. Andeutung - verwischung,Gegenwart und Erinnerung kreisen, entziehen sich demversuch des betrachter, sie zu fixieren, ob er Kinder, Fraun oder andere Szenerien zeigt, immer sind die Photos leicht surrealistisch verfremdet und spielen mit den Ebenen konkreter Abbildung von Wirklichkeit und gefuhlsmassiger Assoziationen." Urs Stahel, "DU" August 1985. "Diverse solo apparentamente le donne riprese a colori da Khatir in Iran: nel contrasto fra uno sguardo bellissimo e la mano tremante di una mendicante, fra i visi sorridenti delle bambine e quelli urlanti delle manifestanti, fra la ricerca della nitidezza e quella del mosso voluto, ancora si trova l'accostamento di due stili, di due tipi di ...

Sumant Barooah - I like to do a lot of work on architecture and landscapes,especially buildings reflecting culture and landscapes playing magic with light. I am one of the opinion that photographs are work of art as no photograph can be reproduced;time and light move on as the year goes by. I like to do people in moods and sometimes the same people in different moods,varying with external or internal joys,excitement,aggravation or sorrow. Sometime even a child can have a blissful look. The photo-stories must be written with the view what the coming generations might not have the opportunity to see;not just history,environment and faith....

Pamela Henry - I am a Photography Artist. My process crosses analog and digital borders. Initially my images are captured on film, slides or digitally. I use a range of techniques from cross-process development and polaroid manipulation to digital painting, collage and layering to create what you see here. If I were to condense my thoughts on photographic expression into a single phrase it would be "in the moment". The moment begins at first sight and is complete when I release the shutter, lift my stylo from the polaroid, or remove my hand from the mouse. I know I will relive that feeling each time I look at the image, like a song or a smell that transports you to another place and time. This photographic expression translates beyond verbal expression and rests in your being, invoking a subjective reaction based on your experiences. Herein lies a collection of such moments. ...

Erik Hoynes - He specialty is creative and fantasy portraits created to his client individual needs and personality. Erik has been a Freelance Photographer in since 1992. I have Experience working in a wide variety of situations and locations from the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Cabo San Lucas, New Orleans, My specialty is location photography - bringing the studio to you. This allows me to use studio lighting and available lighting techniques together. Erik has been a Freelance Photographer since 1992 PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES: Corporate Events, Business Portraits, Weddings, Family Portraits, Bar & Bat Mitzvahs. Location Portraits, Commercial Brochures, Advertising, Annual Reports, Actors & Modeling Headshots. Clients include: HBO, W-Seattle Hotels, Grand Pacific Hotel, Dilettantes Chocolates, Expediters International, BF Goodrich, Boeing Landing Gear, Bill Gates Center for Technology, IKEA, Seattle Magazine, Seattle Symphony, Mary Bridge Children's Foundation, and more. For information Call ERIK In L.A. & Orange County and Seattle Cell ph 714-362-7527 or 310-497-3978 ...

Erik Hoynes - Tantra Bensko - My art affects people strongly. People I have never met tell me things about what happens: they cry, they start painting again, they reconsider choices in their lives.... My art is dangerous, seductive, intense, enigmatic. My art reflects my passion of striving for freedom in the world. My art goes beyond the accepted idea of solid linear reality. ...