Ellen - My Catholic birth name in - Celtic, Irish, Gaelic - is "bringer of light"- my DNA is in photography - phos="light graphis=drawing.
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Photography Degree Zero (1996-2024) in Polaroid 20 X 24 and Struck by Light (1988-2026) in Photogram name her dual practices while Pictus & Writ (2008-2025) finds research, scholarship, writing, a third leg of Carey's creative tripod as she follows the tradition of an artist writing on other artists and their art. Crush & Pull links her photographic experiments in color with process, minimalism to abstraction partnering light and its variations, often with zero exposure, uniting her practices.
Where do you find inspiration?Light’s immateriality challenges its makers today; analog versus digital doubles our challenges. “What is a 21st century photo-object?” Ellen Carey references 19th century photogram with 20th century Polaroid 20 X 24; both share negative-to-positive duality, a foundation in the medium. Her "Crush & Pull" series sees Polaroid’s 20th century peel-apart negative-to-positive contact print meets the wonder of 19th century photogram from paper negative-to-contact positive. "Light drawing" anew.
What would you do with $25,000?Light Struck: The 21st Century Photo-Object in Focus “What is the next 21st century photo-object?” It is Light Struck ...! Polaroid’s huge light-sensitive negative is "struck by light" in my series “Crush & Pull” (2018-2024) thus creating a Polaroid Photogram; underscoring negative-to-positive axis - yes - it is a new photo-object. My plan: make more, plus learn other processes that are "struck by light" in: non-silver processes: cyanotype; return to black/white,19th century cliché-verre etc.
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