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Sandra Davis’ found her vision as a fine art photographer in 1978, while attending Moore College of Art. When she completed a photo essay on an abandoned amusement park that she had visited as a child, she brought a new language to her photography. In the years following, Sandra found herself expanding her vision beyond the traditional realms of photography by experimenting with and adopting various processes and printing methods.
Capturing most of her images on infrared film, Sandra utilizes its unique qualities when photographing landscapes and historic architecture. Abandoned buildings, ruins and the disappearing roadside oddities from previous decades attract her artistic vision. Her search for intriguing subjects has taken her to such places as Ireland, England, France, and throughout North America.
She prints her own black and white gelatin silver images archivally and hand tints them with oils, creating a dreamlike quality through her use of color.
After studying non-silver process printing at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Sandra has adopted Palladium printing as one of her favorite techniques. She hand coats the paper with the precious metal (in a liquid form) and contact prints negatives that have been enlarged to an 8” x 20” format. This technique creates a painterly feel to the image. Other printing processes Sandra employs are: Gum bichromate printing (a process using watercolor pigments as an emulsion); and Cyanotype printing and Van Dyke Brown printing (both non-silver printing processes relying on the light sensitivity of iron salts to create the images).
Ms. Davis currently teaches Non-silver Processes at University of the Arts, as well as showing her work at the Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville, located at 32 Coryell St., Lambertville, NJ 08530. 609-3974588 Hours: Fri.-Sun. 11-6 pm.
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