Anne Ross

Artist Statement:

I create photographic images using traditional, alternative, and electronic methods. I am exploring alternative processes such as lumen prints, cyanotype and the pinhole camera. I also use vintage film cameras and scan negatives to create high resolution, large-scale, archival inkjet prints. I aim to preserve or accentuate the look of film and paper with its subtle graininess and the brush strokes of the chemicals.

Alternative Processes

These images explore alternative photographic processes: lumen prints, cyanotypes, and pinhole cameras. Lumen prints use only sunlight, old photographic paper, and found objects to produce luminescent images of subtle color. Cyanotypes use sunlight and chemistry to produce brilliant blue images. My pinhole camera is a light-tight cardboard box with a pinhole for an aperture. Each of these processes create ghostly and ethereal work.

Low Light and Shadow

These photographs explore the qualities of light and mood found at night or dusk with no indoor lighting. The camera's aperture for each image was open for at least 60 seconds, causing the human subjects to blur slightly as they breathed and moved during the time of the shot. Any inanimate objects remain in focus.

I began exhibiting photography in Alameda, California in 2007. Receiving a Sponsor's Choice award at my first group exhibition encouraged me to continue to show my work.  My work has continued to win awards. I currently exhibit in fine art galleries in the East Bay and in San Francisco.  I'm currently an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.