I am so thrilled to have in my hands today the beautiful Bespokezine Issue 3! Inside this little treasure are some great interviews and tutorials with fellow artists and I am lucky enough to be included with them. To get your own copy of bespokezine please visit the link provided!
A few blog post back I gave the story of how I was selected to be apart of this issue that is made all the way on the other side of the world in Australia! The talented Megan Eckman wrote a wonderful article for this issue titled "Black is the New Colour" and she did a super job of taking my words and images and creating such a lovely article.
A big Thank-You again goes out to Megan and Bespoke for telling my tale. And I would also like to thank John and Elizabeth Fergus-Jean (just two of my wonderful professors from CCAD) for the years of listening, mentoring, and molding me into the artist I am today! I am forever grateful!
Below is the except from the article which was written about me along with a few of my images. All of my Fine-Art photography can be viewed and purchased through my Etsy site, pinkphoto.etsy.com.
The cover of Issue 3 designed by Ali J!
The intro page to the article "Black is the New Colour" by Megan Eckman with my images featured on the title page!!
Excerpt from "Black is the New Colour" by Megan Eckman:
Julie Linz, the artist behind pinkphoto, maintains her love affair with that dark room, and her haunting work is truly all the more breathtaking for it. Skirts and figures play in and out of grainy focus in her series, "The Twist", taking the viewer back to glass plate negatives and the timeless work of Julia Margaret Cameron.
"I started photographing in high school with a roll of Kodak 35mm and a borrowed SLR camera," says Julie. "What grabbed me right from the start was the process of creating a photograph. The gurgle of the baths, the smell of the fixer, the glowing amber light, and the waiting. The waiting for something to literally transform in front of my eyes. Starting from only an idea and an image in a viewfinder and ending with a physical work of art. It was magic.
My fine art work is moody and dark. Haunting images that lead you down a path you may be hesitant to follow. Nothing shocking, nothing disturbing, not what nightmares are made of, but haunting in the best way: memorable. And when the idea surges into my head, the images is already a part of my subconscious. I know instinctively how to tell that story. Black and white and all the amazing notes in between represents that wonderful mix of reality and dream. The choice of black and white is no longer a choice, it is an instinct that I could not turn off it I wanted to. And believe me, there will never come a day when I want to."
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