Fall 2013 – Spring 2014: Darkroom Experimentation

In my last year of college I feel like I really “found” something that interested me and was pulling me in a direction that I felt was new and my own. I spent quite a good amount of time secluded in the darkroom, playing with lights and negatives and creating alternate textures. In May of 2014, I featured these images (as well of a few more that were of similar fashion) in a show for my photographic works. I really came to realize how important symmetry and balance are to me and how they make me feel my work has more of a solid ground to stand on. Something I aim to push past is this exact comfort in works that I’m pursuing currently.

I was really interested in printing paper negatives with positives that I created to harness a proportionate balance.

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If I could, I would gladly explain the creation of these following interesting prints. I dabbled in a process called Solarization and was more pleasantly surprised with the outcome than I was thoroughly expecting. I only wish I had explored this phenomena further, to better grasp the control of creating these images.

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If anyone knows of any dark room photo places in San Diego that would allow me to print, please let me know! I am considering enrolling into a lab unit at a community college just so I can make use of a darkroom again, I miss creating things of this nature.

xo, Justine

Coming back.

Hello. It’s been a while.

Last year I had some really incredible opportunities that I failed to share here, and for that I am incredibly sorry. I have grown so much as a person and an artist, and I failed to demonstrate that here as I had intended. As a new year has begun, my aim is to share at least 1 post per a month of work from last year, and at least 1 post per month of new work that I am in the process of.

Please enjoy being a part of my journey. If you are reading this I am eternally inspired, for I have only dreamt that my work would get to be viewed by eyes sparked with interest and intrigue.

Justine