I set out this summer to capture the unique beauty of the places that I love. I wanted to find simple, pure images that spoke of the larger spirit of the land, the sea, and the history of these places…. letting small things define a powerful sense of place. My work this summer has been produced using a very permanent pigmented black ink and various dilutions of it in place of the standard cyan, magenta and yellow dye based and fugitive inks that come packaged with my high end inkjet printer. The fine art marketplace has coined the phrase "Giclee" to describe a fine arts approach in making prints via the highest quality inks and papers available. I am printing onto 100% cotton rag and ph buffered paper projected to last several hundred years. The resulting prints exhibit a beauty not possible to obtain with commercially available photographic materials. My larger, horizontal prints are the result of handstiching multiple frames together using Adobe Photoshop 5.5. A light overspray of Damar Varnish ensures the longest possible life for the print.

Prints measure 11"x30", 16"x20" and 11"x14"

 

Jerry Nevins, MFA, Still Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology

Professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department Albertus Magnus College New Haven, CT