Penumbral Epiphanies

• Photographer
  Diane Fenster
• Technical Info
  Diana toy camera b&w portraits reworked using iPhone photos and Adobe Photoshop
• Photo Date
  2021
• Website
  http://www.lensculture.com/diane-fenster

Penumbral Epiphanies This series stems from an epiphany received while viewing the shadow of an “insignificant weed." through a skylight in our home. As self-isolation lumbers on due to COVID, the objects I see every day and would normally dismiss, now shine through my ordinary perceptions and become extraordinary. The shadows are seen in a new way and are a doorway to an awakening of the senses that widens my world.

• Biography
  I view myself as an alchemist, using alternative process, antique photographic methods, toy camera and digital tools to delve into fundamental human conditions and issues. My work is literary and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning with a style that marries photography with evocative and fragmented imagery. Currently, I am exploring several antiquarian processes including lumen printing and photo-encaustic. My work (exhibited since 1990) first received notice during the era of early experimentations with digital imaging and has appeared in numerous publications.
• Awards
  2018 11th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Honorable Mention for the What We Leave Behind series 2018 MOSCOW PHOTO AWARDS Honorable Mention for the What We Leave Behind series 2018 WOMEN SEEN BY WOMEN, A SPECIAL EDITION OF THE JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS Honorable Mention 2017 THE SECOND ANNUAL CHARLES DODSON BLACK AND WHITE AWARDS juried by Chris Walker. Finalist in three categories: Fine Art, Nude and Figure, and Portrait. 2016 POLLUX AWARDS, Finalist in the Alternative Process category. 2016 HOLGA & FRIENDS OUT OF THE BOX International Photography competition. 2nd place. TCC PHOTO GALLERY, Longview, TX. 2016 8TH ANNUAL CURIOUS CAMERA COMPETITION. First place award. Photographic Works, Tucson, AZ 2015 7TH JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS FOR WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS. Finalist in the Portrait category and the Alternative Process category 2015 WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Alternative Photographic Processes, Gallery 136 1/2 at PhotoSynthesis, LLC Manchester, CT. 3rd place award. 2001 PHOTOSHOP HALL OF FAME inductee. First artist to be inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame sponsored by Adobe and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals 1996 ART IN THE INFORMATION AGE, First Place Award. jurors were: Phillip Brookman, Curator of Photography and Media Arts, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Richard Field, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Joan Truckenbrod, Associate Professor, Art and Technology; Chair, Time Arts, Art Institute of Chicago 1995 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 95, Third Place Award 1995 Netscape’s COOL SITE OF THE DAY for Ritual of Abandonment Website, April 4th. 1991 MAYOR’S CHOICE AWARD, City of Concord, Concord CA