黑料不打烊

Four fine art photographers have joined forces for a traveling show of infrared photography. This traveling exhibition features the work of: Theresa Aiery, Susan R. Bloom, Jill Enfield and Elizabeth Opalenik.

Each artist has worked with infrared imagery for over twenty years. Images in the show are both film-based and digital. The artwork in this show shows the versatility of the medium and how unique each artist's interpretation can be. Work included in this show ranges from landscapes to figure studies to multi-layered photographic collages.

This exhibit allows us to see something that our human eye cannot observe. Infrared light-waves are beyond the visible spectrum. This invisible radiation is found at both ends of the invisible spectrum. Beyond visible violet, there is invisible ultraviolet and at the other end, beyond visible red, is invisible infrared. As the infrared spectrum extends beyond the end of the visible spectrum, wavelengths increase and infrared then merges into what are called heat waves. We cannot see infrared light waves... but infrared film and special converted digital cameras can.

The appeal of infrared photography is varied. The images that you capture with infrared are dramatic and surreal. A landscape becomes dream-like. Portraits and nudes take on an ethereal beauty: skin becomes translucent and resembles porcelain. The skies and clouds are dramatically pronounced, the vegetation glows, and there is an other-worldly, ephemeral essence to the work. Suddenly the world as we know it, shows up in print form looking strangely bizarre or wonderfully romantic. This is the mystery and magic of infrared. It carries you beyond the literal perspective of your eyes into the limitless vision of your mind's eye. These four photographers approach the medium from different viewpoints, showing the range of possibilities inherent in the medium.