Astra Velum is an exploration of the beauty of human skin, with all its freckles and scars, its aberrations and blemishes. It is a celebration of textures and specks in an age where flawlessness is revered. More than once, while photographing for this series, a subject thanked me for making something beautiful out of what they often viewed as a flaw.
April, a freckled woman whom I photographed for this series, told me a story from her childhood. One day after playing outside, her grandmother asked her to go wash up. She went to the bathroom and did so, but grandma wasn’t satisfied. “Your face isn’t clean! Go scrub it some more!” The young girl was distraught, for all that was left on her skin were her freckles, and no amount of scrubbing would make them go away.
Printed as photogravures by the artist, Astra Velum is a series which, at its essence, explores the beauty of surface textures: human skin and its freckles and scars, like a thin veil of stars.
Fritz Liedtke
Fritz began photographing as a teen, carrying his Kodak 110 Instamatic around on a US tour with his father at age 14, in their little blue Datsun B210. Twenty-five years later, he continues to explore the world, camera in hand.
In the intervening years, Fritz acquired a BFA in Photography; won numerous awards and grants for his work; enjoyed artist residencies in various places; had photographs published, collected, and shown in galleries and museums; wrote articles and essays for various publications; lectured and taught workshops on photography and the artistic life; and balanced both commercial and fine art practices. He also loves to travel. He is constantly looking for new ways to approach the world through art.
Portland, Oregon is his home, along with his wife and their bright orange house.
Displaced
Displaced is a deeply personal book of photographs about finding external beauty in the midst of intense internal crisis. Landscape photographer Lauren Henkin has created an introspective book which describes a hunger for inspiration during the breakup of her marriage. Printed on archival paper and hand-bound by renowned bookbinder John DeMerritt, Displaced presents two photographic portfolios in black-and-white, derived from solitary departures in the U.S. and Nova Scotia. Explore >
Silence is an Orchard
Silence is an Orchard is a beautiful handmade book of photographs taken in 2008 and 2009 in a single field within Acadia National Park in Maine. Printed on Japanese kozo paper, the book presents the work of five Northwest women artists. Explore >
Thereafter
Thereafter embodies the process of coming to terms with the fundamentally unanswerable questions: “Why did my father’s wife shoot him to death and what prevents her from recalling the event?” With the authorities’ inability to stitch together a clear explanation of the driving forces that led to the shooting, no one will ever really know what happened or why. This book is the result of wandering alone, clearheaded without thinking, making space for feelings to become tangible. Photographing urban, yet wild and protected parkland provides cover for wrestling with issues not ready to be overcome. Explore >
- 12 photogravures
- Rives BFK with Kitikata
- 6"x8" on 11"x14" sheet
- Clamshell box
- Limited to 12
- $5,500
