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For the last few years my photography has become more and more centered on the alternative processes of making pictures. Although some of my images are made with traditional cameras, most of the images in these galleries have been created with low-tech plastic lens cameras (the vintage Diana or the contemporary Holga) and with pinhole devices I make myself from tin cans and cardboard tubes.
The galleries are organized around the places in the world that--so far--have inspired me. The C-Scape Gallery records the pictures--mostly self-portraits--made during the three weeks in June and July of 2005 when I was awarded a fellowship for an artist-in-residency at the primitive dune shack called C-Scape in Provincetown, MA.
The exaggeration and distortion made by pinhole cameras creates pictures that I see as a form of photographic impressionism that can be, as Cézanne wrote of his paintings, "faithful to a striking or beautiful object and a modern abstraction--a moving harmony representing nothing." My cameras become my collaborators in making the kinds of impressionistic pictures that are like those that are always moving through our minds; the reflections, glimpses and shadows that are the pictures of our memories and the pictures of our dreams.
All my photographs are museum quality, fiber based, gelatin silver prints, individually printed by me in limited editions. Sizes and prices are available upon request. Commissions are welcome.
Martin R. Anderson • email: mraegmont@aol.com
