I am:
a photographer specializing in portrait, art, music and fashion, and a visual artist specializing in drawing and illustration. My outlook on design/technology:
Design is involved in our everyday lives; as such, it can be something that brings both a functionality and aesthetic to quality to everything we experience. Fusing practicality with the creative is one of my foci; the others include utilizing digital technology for creative expression, and artistic and social communication.
About me:
As a photographer and visual artist I am focused on creating new ways of seeing through the process of making strange.
Photographs and visual art have the power to confirm the world around us, or to create fresh, unusual perspectives. I conceptualize the visual as a conversation between an image and its reader. In seeking to encourage communication between the two, I catalyze a process of reflection and projection, in order to alter our pictures of reality. My background in visual anthropology and film studies provides the theoretical framework for her projects.
In the spring of 2008, I completed Iconic Beauty, a portrait project in collaboration with designer Rosemarie Umetsu and painter Timothy Sullivan. I shot fashion portraits of 23 distinguished Canadian women in the arts including rock singer Alannah Myles, opera singer Measha Brueggergosman, playwright Judith Thompson, jazz pianist Nancy Walker and filmmaker Deepa Mehta. The project opened during the 2008 CONTACT festival of photography in Toronto, ON.
In sum, I aim to move beyond the usual photographer-subject relationship, to experiment with a photographic engagement that recognizes “subjects” as partners whose contributions are integral to the content and impact of the resulting image.
Photographs and visual art have the power to confirm the world around us, or to create fresh, unusual perspectives. I conceptualize the visual as a conversation between an image and its reader. In seeking to encourage communication between the two, I catalyze a process of reflection and projection, in order to alter our pictures of reality. My background in visual anthropology and film studies provides the theoretical framework for her projects.
In the spring of 2008, I completed Iconic Beauty, a portrait project in collaboration with designer Rosemarie Umetsu and painter Timothy Sullivan. I shot fashion portraits of 23 distinguished Canadian women in the arts including rock singer Alannah Myles, opera singer Measha Brueggergosman, playwright Judith Thompson, jazz pianist Nancy Walker and filmmaker Deepa Mehta. The project opened during the 2008 CONTACT festival of photography in Toronto, ON.
In sum, I aim to move beyond the usual photographer-subject relationship, to experiment with a photographic engagement that recognizes “subjects” as partners whose contributions are integral to the content and impact of the resulting image.
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