Marion under the Moon

PrizeOfficial Selection in Shoot (photo/video)
ArtistLawrence Russ
CategoryNon-Professional
CreditLawrence Russ
Video URLView

The images are set in natural or simulated night-time and involved the use of numerous flash techniques and units, sometimes as many as ten strobes with varying modifiers. Each features the same woman, her face turned away or partly "veiled," manifesting her differing aspects, guises and mysteries. And not only hers, I hope, but virtually all women's (and men's, too, though men may be less ready to see it). That hope is one reason for Marion’s “veiling” and the choice of simple clothes and settings, not much tied to particular styles, times or groups.

Bio
Sloan Scholar for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. Master of the Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Photographs chosen in international competition for, among other venues & journals (multiple times for most), Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, CA); Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO); The Photo Review; COLOR Magazine; F-Stop Magazine (Chicago Il USA); PhotoPlace Gallery (VT USA); Praxis Gallery (Minneapolis MN USA); Black Box Gallery (Portland OR USA); A Smith Gallery (TX USA); and The Atlanta Photography Group Gallery (GA USA).