Trish Triumpho
Sullivan, a Monterey Bay, California sculptor and photographer, has been
focusing on in-camera double exposure photography for five years. She uses both
black and white and color film, and does not manipulate the images after the
fact in the darkroom or in the computer.
"While existentially nervous, the
work possesses the gritty clarity of the irresolvable. It keeps turning
out to be about something other than what it apparently being said," comments
one critic.
I have had a great
deal of fun creating this series of in-camera special effects, she exclaims.
Using both an inexpensive Holga point-and-shoot camera and a vintage Ansco
camera to take the photographs with, Sullivan discovers interesting shapes during
everyday situations. Subjects are often buildings, or other construction,
though the artist also finds significant images in natural settings.
I always use film
to create my photographs and compose the images in the camera, Sullivan states,
I dont manipulate the pictures on the computer afterwards. For me, this is
the challenge. The reward is the surprise that comes when the film is developed
sometimes the images are much better than I had imagined, and other times they
are duds. Photography is always fun, new, and unusual that is what I
hope for the viewer to experience, too.
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