Joy Goldkind
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Joy Goldkind uses the historic bromoil process as a tool to express her fine art portraits. The images are hand-crafted using brush and inks, which adds a layer of mystery to the photograph. These images capture the spirit of the person rather than the realist representation of the subject. Here we see a mixture of fantasy and realism that capture the inner most persona of a person. Bromoil was used by photographers of the pictorial movement because they wanted their work to have a more artistic rendering. It is this step away from the clear photographic interpretation that I am looking for in my images. This process uses a bromide silver gelatin image, which is then bleached to remove the silver content. Lithographic inks are used to replace the silver that has been removed by the bleaching.
Joe Profita
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Sight is the sense I value the most. I am drawn to quiet, beautiful places where I can escape life's complexities. At the risk of trying to sound overly 'significant', I find myself looking for small portions of a scene that are perfect, what I interpret as a window to God. I began photographing in color as a means of simply remembering these scenes, a visual record. I saw Edward Weston prints in the early 1970�fs and my interest in the medium changed. His monochrome images captured these perfect visual moments flawlessly. Since then I have worked primarily with silver, and more recently with iron and palladium materials. I think I am finally getting at the root of what I 'see'. My photographs are simply window views of something that has touched me...a bit of God?