Laura Campbell: Featured Artist
Capturing Emotion in the American West
     San Lorenzo Mission, photogravure |
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Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley
Laura Campbell appeared on the f295 forums a couple years ago with a set of beautiful pinholes from the desert of California. She has since gone on to create evocotive and sensuous photogravure images that are reminiscent of the works of Paul Strand and Edward Steichen. She is this issue’s featured artist.
Where are you located?
I was raised in Europe and the Bay Area. I currently live in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, near the San Francisco de Asis Church. The landscape, architecture, and rich cultural heritage of Northern New Mexico provide me with endless photographic opportunities.
How long have you been doing pinhole work?
I made pinhole photographs for the first time in 1997. In 2007, I began to explore the medium in-depth while on a three month camping trip in the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley National Park. One image from this series was selected for the show "Photography at High Speed: A Historical and Contemporary Exhibit" at the Los Angeles County Fair. My photograph was awarded the finalist and legacy awards.
What camera (s) do you use?
I use a Zero Image 4×5 Deluxe designed by Zernike Au. I particularly enjoy the camera’s three different focal lengths, and unique shutter system.
What is your favorite camera for pinhole work?
Zero Image 4×5 Deluxe. I selected the Zero Image because of its shutter system, and its precision drilled pinhole. This camera is lightweight and compact, is beautifully crafted, and the manual system allows for outstanding control over exposure.
Runway at Manzanar
What’s your favorite subject?
While I’m drawn to subjects such as mountains, plants, and historic architecture, the subject matter has to fit a certain criteria for me to engage in photographing it. The most important criteria is my emotional response to what I see. If at any stage while photographing something, I lose my emotional connection to the subject, I pack up the camera and walk away. Conversely, if my connection to the subject continues to grow, I will explore it until my curiosity is fulfilled.
See more of Laura’s work at her website and in her flickr stream
Talk about Laura Campbell: Featured Artist
Erin Malone
Erin Malone, Principal at Tangible ux, has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing web and software applications, social experiences and system-wide solutions. Prior to Tangible, she was at Yahoo! where she led the Platform User Experience Design team and was responsible for building the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and for providing design expertise to the popular YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library). Additionally, she led the redesign of the Yahoo! Developer Network, oversaw the redesign of Yahoo!’s Registration system, designed cross-network social solutions, developed the ux team’s Intranet and other cross-company initiatives.
Before Yahoo!, she was a Design Director at AOL leading a range of community and personalization initiatives; Creative Director at AltaVista responsible for the AV Live portal and community tools and Chief Information Architect for Zip2 which produced a custom content management system for local city guides, entertainment guides, maps and yellow pages, including New York Today for the NYTimes.
She was the founding editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows, a role she served for 5 years. She is the author of several articles on interaction design history and design management and a founding member of the IA Institute. Erin has a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University (1986), Greenville NC and an MFA in Information Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1994), Rochester NY.
She is the author of the book Designing Social Interfaces with Christian Crumlish for O’Reilly Media and its related site designingsocialinterfaces.com.
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I love Laura’s pictures. The black & white desert shots give a whole new, otherworldly feeling to that landscape. I can relate to her emotional connection – its a surefire way to capture something magical and her work proves it. :)