I don’t like explaining my photographic images or why I made a particular selection for a series. For me, the images speak for themselves, and to burden them with a word chatter seems redundant.
I titled this series of images ‘PhotoPoche’ because I’m delving through my large archival body of work in the hopes that I can see a book emerging… AND all these images were shot with FILM before digital cameras.
I recently purchased a very expensive Hasselblad film scanner and I’m falling in love with film (again).
My “self-portrait” image is well, self explanatory: I do not take ‘selfies’. My own image doesn’t fascinate me.
Lisa Powers.
Lisa Powers was born in the south of France and emigrated to New York with her family when she was ten years old.
In 1980, she borrowed a NIKON camera and began shooting after she quit her day-job in the creative department of a small advertising agency and was hired as the cleaner/janitor of a large commercial photo studio.
Her ambition was to become a professional freelance commercial photographer and she learned by watching the studio photographers shoot in the daytime, then shooting for herself with models at night.
She learned more by artistic experimentation and intuition than technical correctness, since she had absolutely no technical knowledge.
For the next twenty-five years she was one of the few women working with success in commercial photography, an industry which was, and still is, largely male-dominated.
In 2008 she did the “BIG SCARY THING”… She left New York and relocated to New Zealand where she shifted her photography from commercial to Fine Art, and herself from “a New York photographer in New Zealand” to “a New Zealand photographer from New York”.
It makes a difference.
Lisa Powers has won many prestigious international awards, including ‘Distinction Honours” from The Royal Photographic Society, London.
Her Photographic FineArt has been exhibited in art galleries in New Zealand, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo. Her current exhibition, “WanRong: The Short, Tragic Life of the Last Empress of China” is currently at the FoGuangYuan Art Gallery at The Buddhist Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.
