Diversity on the Farm marked a departure from my usual strict black and white production. The color photographs were shot using Fujichrome Velvia 50, some of which were then used as Polaroid transfer images. Unfortunately, most of those were sold before I had the chance to make slides though one didn't escape and, et voila!, is displayed at the bottom this page.
Obviously, I didn't abandon black and white (my heart wouldn't let me) nor did I abandon my trusty crappy twin lens Lubitel (my heart won't let go of that either). I shot as much of one format as the other, as much with my Nikon 35mm as the Lubitel 120mm, but I did not print any of the black and white images. Instead, they were poorly scanned (yes, I admit it) from the negatives using a Canon Canoscan (model unknown) flatbed scanner. As much as I resist digital imaging, it does provide a much faster, and dare I say - healthier - method of imaging. I reckon I'll break down and buy a dang digital camera eventually...
This series looks at farmers diversifying and/or otherwise migrating their tobacco producing farms to other, more
sustainable and profitable crops. It's a work in progress to be sure plus it was my first true collaboration with another artist:
Jenrose Fitzgerald. Jenrose is a gifted singer/songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky who crafted a CD's worth of
great original material on the same theme. Together, we presented an evening of sight and song at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in the summer of 2005.
The project was funded by The Kentucky Arts Council's Art Builds Community Grant. Of course, we've plans to continue the series, but it's temporarily on hold (life sure gets in the way of art sometimes).
Presented here are a small 40 piece sampling of the series.
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