CAROL REID 

Carol Reid, award-winning neo-modernist fine art photographer/digitographer, is a native of Brooklyn, NY.  Her sensitivity to color, texture, form and light is fully evident across her wide-ranging portfolio of fine art photographs that are known for their luminescent painterly presence.  She often achieves a lyricism, tonal movement, and other-worldly quality through selective use of techniques such as solarization and inversion to reveal what the natural eye cannot see.  A self-taught artist who acknowledges the excitement of encountering unpredictable and ephemeral gems, Reid relies on observation and instinct in the field when framing and capturing her subjects with her hand-held mirrorless digital camera and, frequently now, with her iPhone and iPad.  She controls every aspect of artistic production from initial capture through digital darkroom creation of the final image in Photoshop, and generates highest resolution, limited edition large-format prints using museum-quality archival fine art matte papers on her Epson 9880 printer.  

 

"What attracts and excites me is the beauty of abstract design abundant in nature and things made by human hands. It resonates well with my creative voice of reductivism that emphasizes, in the way of Japanese woodblock ukiyo-e art, the mood and energy of the subject. I use a selective array of digital tools in my Photoshop darkroom to define-refine my subject’s existing form and texture, teasing forth levels of light and color that I find encoded within the original capture.

 

"My creative process is a meditation and dialogue that involves listening and feeling as well as seeing. Asking questions and paying attention to responses. This is the collaboration and my pledge to honor each subject’s spirit. The emergent newborn image expresses a dynamic often not immediately evident in its original state. It is a transformational discovery! Essence revealed. An enabling liberation. The Shazam event! And through this process, I too am changed and grow as an artist."

 

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