Topic: New Guest Gallery - Jennifer Shaw!

[Susan B.]

Pleased to present our latest guest gallery by New Orleans based photographer, Jennifer Shaw.
Check it out!
http://www.filmwasters.com/guests/v/guestgallery38/?g2_navId=xc21463b4

[Pete_R]

Has anyone else noticed the artifacts (don't know what else to call them) in some of Jennifer's pictures. 'Three Trees' has a lot of round patterns in the lower third. Some others, including 'Raindrops on Lake' have some rectangular patches showing. Are these 'Holga' artifacts? The round ones look like a bad example of burning in with a large round brush in Photoshop - surely not...

Here's a couple of crops with the contrast increased to show what I'm talking about.



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[Susan B.]

Monopix,
Not sure where the patterns come from, but I've seen some of these prints in person.
And as Jennifer specifies in her statement--they were in fact made in a traditional darkroom.

 

[Mark H]

Very Nice!  Being a Louisiana native these photos bring me home--great job--Mark

[MarkBurley]

Lovely images - they all have a very distinctive style.

Mark

[eyecaramba]

I sometimes will scan and retouch images for online use that never are printed conventionally and may not get the same care as an actual print - silver or digital - and maybe these scans / files were pulled together with a similar nonchalance because Jennifer's actual prints are indeed beautiful.

The Hurricane Story - the color image is from this series - is an amazing book.  It should ultimately find a publisher as it is a seriously compelling collection of images and words.

[LT]

I sometimes will scan and retouch images for online use that never are printed conventionally and may not get the same care as an actual print - silver or digital - and maybe these scans / files were pulled together with a similar nonchalance because Jennifer's actual prints are indeed beautiful.

I do much the same thing.