Opening Reception: Photo Exhibit- "Denmark by Process--One Year Later"
Schedule
Fri Aug 02 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Link Gallery & Workshop | Omaha, NE
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“Denmark by Process— One Year Later”
Artist Bio:
Kori Archbold is a newly minted photographer living in Omaha, Nebraska. She recently received her AAS degree in Photography from Metro Community College and has been a member of the LINK co-op Gallery since January of 2024. Her photo work began with a home-grown food blog, and has now stretched beyond shooting cookies & cake to experiences in events, portraits, headshots, travel, architecture, and street photography. Her more recent developments include exploring alternative processes and analog film photography, which involves spending long hours in the dark room. Long term projects include digitization of stacks of photos from her childhood, rehabbing old furniture into completely new pieces of art, and lastly, one of these days, publishing a cookbook, which is still developing with the help of her best friend and chef, Greg Rickenbacher. She is also still in the process of transitioning to a new career, the old of which was music education.
Artist Story/Statement:
The inspiration for this exhibit stemmed from a trip to Denmark in the summer of 2003, while on tour with the Dana College Chorale. How lucky was I to spend not only one trip, but two, four years later, with the same host family, Jørn and Grete Nielsen of Ribe, Denmark. Twenty years after meeting them initially, and staying in touch all those years, I decided it was time for my husband to meet them. Last summer, as I desperately tried to pack my “big girl camera” into our carry-on only bags, my husband stopped me and said —what if you could photograph Denmark with JUST your iPhone? As my old friend Kent Sievers said, “the best camera is the one you have on you”, and that advice led me to take my secret weapon in my pocket to Europe. I warned that I would be stopping every 30 seconds for “THE SHOT”—and I did not regret that decision.
Every image was taken with the iPhone 14 pro, and edited mostly on the phone itself. Very few were taken into Photoshop or Lightroom thereafter. For the alternative process prints, I was able to take the original shots and transform them into negatives, print on transparency film, and expose them to UV, all of this thanks to extensive education from experimental photography class. Some of the alternative prints look like the images were from a time capsule, as if they were meant to be captured that way, and not in a color digital photo. The older, original processes age a photo, in a good way.
My fixation with Denmark not only came from my Alma Mater, Dana College, but from my heritage as well, as my fourth great grandpa emigrated here in the 1860’s from one of Denmark’s many islands. I love to carry on my love for Denmark through images captured in the moment, with a Scandinavian heart, and a Midwestern eye for seeing the beauty in everything. I hope you enjoy the mix of digital prints, cyanotypes, and salt prints, and see through my eyes what Denmark looked like in all shades, colors, and processes.
I would like to personally thank all those who led me here:
David Archbold, Larry Gawel, Adam Dienst-Scott, Laura Burke, Gregg Pejsar, Mike Cook, Milton Heinrich, Starla Stensaas, Greg Rickenbacher, Nathan Kramer, Amy Barlow, Brook and Nick Hudson, Christine Burright, Derek Davis, Bob Bair, Jørn and Grete Nielsen, Dr. Richard Palmer, Joe Burns, my parents Gary and Cathy, my brother Kodi, my in-laws and other extended family, and lastly, the work of Jacob Riis, who inspired me to photograph real life. His home town also happens to be Ribe, Denmark.
Skål!
Visit my website: timekapsuleimages.com
Link Gallery at the Blackstone Mansion
144 S. 39th Street Omaha, Nebraska
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Where is it happening?
Link Gallery & Workshop, 144 S 39th St, Omaha, NE 68131-3049, United States,Omaha, NebraskaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: