Cleveland photographer Greg Martin traveled to Cuba as part of the Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion cohort in the winter of 2017. While in Havana and Matanzas, he made photographs of locals using the wet plate collodion process, a complex technique that dates to the early days of photography. It involves first dipping a piece of glass or metal in a […]
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In the afternoon before the opening of Lakeland Community College’s May Show, the poster that would later greet visitors was covered in brown paper to keep the identity of the Best-In-Show winner a secret. During a walk around the galleries that afternoon, it was impossible to ignore Mark Giangaspero’s imposing pastel portrait in grays and blues, Altered Identity. The image […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Not Reflected in the Official Media: Sandra Ramos While all artists’ work reflects their own gaze, Cuban multidisciplinary artist Sandra Ramos makes her that tangible by placing her own image, costumed in the red uniform all Cuban school children wear, at the center of the work. Ramos spent March in Cleveland working […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. As the local collaborating artist for the Cleveland Print Room, Greg Martin’s preparation for the Creative Fusion excursion to Cuba wasn’t as simple as tossing a camera and a few memory cards in his suitcase. His 19th-century wet plate collodion process required toting 70 pounds of equipment and relying on extraordinary measures […]
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