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I started dabbling with photography as an art medium when I was in my late teens. I’ve always been an avid scrapbooker and diligent photographer of my own daily life. Recently, I started looking back at the images I’ve taken over the years, realized that there’s a lot of art in there and begun exploring some of the themes. Here are a few series:
Georgia O’Keeffe Double Exposure Images
When I was in my late teens, I took manual double exposure photos of Georgia O’Keeffe and her paintings, sometimes exploring double exposures of photographs of those double exposures as well as collage layouts of the printed images. It was re-discovering this work and musing upon its relationship to a book chapter I wrote about the artist and the relationship of her creativity to mental health that made me realize that I’ve often been exploring the same themes throughout my career.
Read more about this re-discovery here.
1990’s Magazine Double Exposure Images
I’ve always loved the medium of magazines. Vintage magazines from the early 1900’s as well as from the 1960’s and 1970’s have often found their way into my library and then eventually into photography and collage projects. I also did a series of double exposure images from 1990’s teen magazines, mostly exploring the harmful impact of the beauty industry that I was experiencing as a then-teen myself.
“My Life is Dangerous”
I’ve always been fascinated by the signage around us and particularly with signs about “danger.” For a long time, whenever I would see one, I’d pose in front of it, fake-screaming (which usually looked like a laugh because I’m not the best actress in the world) and adding it to my series. I take them less often these days, mostly only when the sign or setting feels really unique, but I’ve always loved this series and enjoy adding to it now and then.