TOMIKO
JONES - AUGUST 2001
THE BUNNY CHRONICLES
Photographs by TOMIKO JONES
Opening reception Saturday, August 4th, 6-10pm
Also
featuring photographs by JAMES EWING
in the Annex
THE
BUNNY CHRONICLES
Photographs
by Tomiko Jones
Simply put, my photographs are an observation on light
and shadow, and the plain beauty of natural light. My attraction towards
the soft lines of the human form have compelled me to use my friends
as subjects and models over the years. They have become the form on
which the light and the basic elements will play.
I have been drawn continually back to the self-portrait. It seems that
in the past I would play the subject because no one else was available
at that magic moment of perfect light. Now, I find myself playing out
the characters of a mysterious story because I am the only one who can
tell it. The stories are inexplicable, except in that they emerge from
somewhere deep down and parallel my own life.
I am trudging across a vast field with a suitcase full of props, an
enormously heavy tripod, a box of Polaroid film, a bucket of water,
and an old Crown Graphic 4 x 5 press camera. The story unfolds from
here.
All Photos © Tomiko Jones
photographs by JAMES EWING (Featured in the Annex)
Using my camera as a journal I am working in an intuitive way to make these color images. I look for situations with a softness of color, a strikingness of light, and a hint of nostalgia. By photographing elements of life often defined by an absence of people, my images aspire to a feeling of quiet isolation. While often meditative and still, this work attempts to see the extraordinary in the everyday.
I am working in a technically loose way, using vintage cameras which have an element of unpredictability. This liberates me from the constrictions of focus and exposure allowing an intuitive approach. I find a power in the soft focus and muted colors that can be achieved by working this way.
© James Ewing
© James Ewing
©
James Ewing
