Connie's profile
Being a board member of the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund, I am not elegible for prize money, however, I have enjoyed tremendously the process of putting my portfolio together and experiencing the website for myself.
This early self portrait was made in 1972 when I was studying photography at MICA under Richard Kirstel.
My fascination with photographing the nude reflected in water started in the mid 1980's when a VERY good friend volunteered to lay in a muddy stream, so I could photograph her. My life changed that day. That was when I saw for the first time the mesmerizing transformation that water could have on the body. This began a series of images I have been working on continuously and exclusively ever since - exploring the effect of reflections and distortions on the human figure.
My photographs are not manipulated in either the camera or computer, rather they are seen through the camera. Though I am a traditional photographer, my images are not at all traditional. My work is not a literal rendition of the body but more interpretive, and at its best, poetic and mythological.
I trust the power of an intuitive way of seeing the body, that is, approaching my photography without an outcome in mind. I let my eye be guided by the forms I see through my camera lens. What emerges can be exhilarating or frightening, inspiring or frustrating, often echoing timeless archetypes of a hero’s journey or a religious conversion. This marvelous and mystifying intuitive exploration can lead to a discovery of the level beneath my own awareness, of things of which I am not always conscious -- those heroes and demons that travel with me and influence my thoughts and emotions every day.
The synergy between the unconscious and the conscious allows recognition and articulation of difficult feelings. It is in this liminal space, this borderland between the conscious and unconscious, where mythic archetypes and common themes of human nature reside.
This early self portrait was made in 1972 when I was studying photography at MICA under Richard Kirstel.
My fascination with photographing the nude reflected in water started in the mid 1980's when a VERY good friend volunteered to lay in a muddy stream, so I could photograph her. My life changed that day. That was when I saw for the first time the mesmerizing transformation that water could have on the body. This began a series of images I have been working on continuously and exclusively ever since - exploring the effect of reflections and distortions on the human figure.
My photographs are not manipulated in either the camera or computer, rather they are seen through the camera. Though I am a traditional photographer, my images are not at all traditional. My work is not a literal rendition of the body but more interpretive, and at its best, poetic and mythological.
I trust the power of an intuitive way of seeing the body, that is, approaching my photography without an outcome in mind. I let my eye be guided by the forms I see through my camera lens. What emerges can be exhilarating or frightening, inspiring or frustrating, often echoing timeless archetypes of a hero’s journey or a religious conversion. This marvelous and mystifying intuitive exploration can lead to a discovery of the level beneath my own awareness, of things of which I am not always conscious -- those heroes and demons that travel with me and influence my thoughts and emotions every day.
The synergy between the unconscious and the conscious allows recognition and articulation of difficult feelings. It is in this liminal space, this borderland between the conscious and unconscious, where mythic archetypes and common themes of human nature reside.
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