Here are the portfolios produced during the Portfolio 2023 programme.
Flora…and the handmade photograph
Every year a friend brings me arum lilies from her garden, and every second year or so, a neighbour’s white magnolia tree blooms. Irresistible subjects for a black and white photographer.
The form, texture and grace of these flowers suggest a print process that can capture their tonal range.
That process uses platinum and palladium.
For each image I made an enlarged digital negative. Under subdued light I coated heavy cotton rag paper with a sensitized platinum/palladium solution, placed the negative in contact with the paper and exposed the ‘sandwich’ under UV light. After clearing and washing the print is left to dry.
I love the “hands on” aspect of making photographs and find it deeply satisfying.
Lyn Arnold
November 2023
My Travel Memorablia
Images and travel memories of objects collected from 30 countries over almost 60 years.
Currowan Misremembered
I was a witness to the Currowan fire that scorched land and souls. Currowan was the stuff of nightmares and so it remains. Time has not gentled the memories: dimmed and distorted but not gentled.
Susan Buchanan
Technique: Photopolymer photogravures created using an etching press. Each image is two layers: one printmaking paper overlaid by Japanese tissue paper with the image mirrored.
Left Lost Abandoned – a series of found items
During the Covid lockdown my main source of exercise became walking around the local neighbourhood. It was during this time that I began to notice the sheer quantity of “stuff” that remained after all the people had gone. Now that Covid lockdowns are a thing of the past and there are more people about, there has been a commensurate increase in the quantities of materials that I call Left, Lost, Abandoned.
CRADLE MOUNTAIN TO LAKE ST CLAIR
6 DAY WALK
Colour and Shape in Sydney
I have used Jeffrery Smart's work as an inspriration for this work. My intention was to capture his passion by using bold colour and geometric shape to construct a series of bright and cherrful images.
Samm - An artisan's journey
Charcoal Impressions
Impressions of North head as it grows after bushfires
‘Agave’ - Platinum Palladium Prints
Agave; genus of monocotyledons, is an aloe-like native to the hot and dry regions of America.
A striking plant having a dense cluster of rigid fleshy leaves. Eye-catching as a single specimen, spectacular in a developed clump - but to a photographers’ eye, so much more. A delightful source of changing shapes, patterns, light and shade when inspected through a contortion of camera angles in the early morning light.
I hope the viewer will enjoy these prints of the Agave in my garden as much as I have enjoyed taking and printing them in the dark room.
Beryl Jenkins
Journeys Unearthed: A Surreal Portfolio
"Journeys Unearthed" is a surreal adventure, a journey deep into the human experience. This portfolio aims to evoke introspection, inviting viewers to embark on their own inner journeys, to voyage into the uncharted territories of the human psyche and to ponder the limitless landscapes that reside within the human mind.
Inspired by AI
New worlds inspired by AI and recreated in Photoshop
Reflections 3 x 3
The idiomatic
In this portfolio, I wanted to create a visual representation of a group of Spanish idiomatic expressions and that have in common the phrase "I have the head..." And describe both the physical and emotional state of the person who uses them.
Water the elixir of life
What is it all about
Flower Matrices
My portfolio comprises two panels of photographs of flowers. One panel shows photographs where I
experimented with the use of focus stacking and off-camera flash. The second panel shows flowers after rain.
Hello Daisy
A 38-year-old Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
(Cacatua Galerita)
Abandoned
Intimations of the proud history of the Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Autumn light on the Gordon River, Tasmania.
Motion in the ocean
Tarkine Impressions
Brickpit Minimalism
Abstract Landscapes
Arial images of the North Queensland (to the tip of Cape York) landscape from a light aircraft
NOTAN
LIGHT AND DARK HARMONY
Notan is a Japanese term that literally means "light-dark harmony". Artists use "notan studies" to explore different arrangements of light and dark elements in a painting without having the distraction of other elements like colour, texture and finer details.
Notan is the underlying abstract framework, or pattern of lights and darks, upon which the value structure of a painting is created.
FLINDERS ISLAND
A collection of intimate landscapes photographed in June this year and printed by the Photopolymer Gravure method.
Wonderful insects in our neighbourhood
Woodworking tools
