Juliet Harrison | Red Hook, New York USA
I call myself a "Darkroom Dinosaur". In an age of digital cameras, Photoshopped effects, inkjet and laser printers – I am a traditionalist. I work in film. Primarily 35mm. I photograph in black and white and hand-print each and every print. Working with the negative until the final piece says exactly what I had hoped it would. The equipment I use could have been used 30, 50, 70 years ago. I do this, in part, because I love the process of printing. The hands on work that goes into each one is so much a part of my creation process. Black and white reduces the artist and the viewer to the basic elements. It is a constraint that forces me as an artist to be acutely aware of every element in the image. Everything informs the whole. And, at the same time, it enhances the focus on shape, shadow, texture and light. A hand-printed Gelatin Silver Print absorbs and reflects light in ways that ink on paper cannot. The image is created on the paper with by the addition and subtraction of silver. That too gives a wider range of tone to the work. My work with horses has allowed me to concentrate on both the beauty of the horse form and my relationship to it. Working in the B&W silver print is part and parcel of that process of representing what I see and feel when with horses.
I received my MFA in photography in 1991 Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI
SHOWS, PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
2 Person Show
Silo Gallery
Hunt Hill Farm Trust
New Milford, Connecticut - 2009
Terry Lindsay’s Equidae Gallery
Saratoga Springs, NY - 2009
Over Hill and Dale
Maplebrook School
Amenia, NY - 2009
EQUUS
Carrie Haddad Photography
Hudson, New York - 2009
Photowork 08
National Juried Competition
Barrett Art Center
Poughkeepsie, New York - 2008
16th Annual Fall American Photography Exhibition
Hubbard Museum of the American West
Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico - 2007-2008
Contemporary Landscapes
Evoke Gallery St. Paul, Minnesota - 2007
Columbia County Council on the Arts Annual Juried Show
Hudson, New York - 2007
Western Photo Gallery Competition
The Calgary Stampede
Calgary, Canada - 2006
The Art of the Horse
New Jersey Equine Artist’s Association
National Juried Exhibit
Somerset Art Association
Bedminster, New Jersey - 2006