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InFocus 2017 Photographer Hedy Bach
I love sharing the work of other talented artists, writers, musicians and, of course, photographers. Today is a special guest post by one of the 2017 InFocus Photo photographers. I am pleased to introduce Hedy Bach! I first got to know Hedy and her photography two years ago when she submitted and showed her photography at our 2015 InFocus Photo Exhibit and Award. Hedy is a “sloppy Buddhist” and an inspirational woman in the arts. Below you will find a unique guest blog post, entirely in poem, writing about photography. On that note, I pass this post over to Hedy!
HEDY BACH
i photograph daily
i write daily
i upload images daily
i use adobe lightroom & photo apps
and i try to work mainly in camera
i play with my fujx100s & iphone 6
rarely do i go anywhere without a camera
i like small carry-around cameras
ones i can wear like a necklace
i like to feel obscure
i appreciate tripods but rarely use them
in 2011 i began to photograph with intention
before that i made snapshots
as a girl i was always looking
i learned about the surveyed and surveyors
i studied the place of the photograph
i became a visual researcher
i taught fine arts curriculum to education students
and as a researcher i worked with images and story
social justice issues, human rights, and visual ethics matter deeply to me
line up ~ Edmonton, Alberta ~ 2016 by Hedy Bach
when i started my blog sloppybuddhist.com
i wanted to compose posts with my images
i wanted to be behind a camera
try another way of visual story telling
every day i began to photograph beauty with intention
beauty that can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane;
it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling.
couple ~ Edmonton, Alberta ~ 2016 by Hedy Bach
i’m self-taught
i learn from
artists
photographers
photo-journalists
writers
musicians
botanists
bloggers
filmmakers
poets, etc.
mostly i learn along the way
i love
seeing
beauty
in ordinary everyday life
i am a member of two local photography clubs
i attend workshops, talks and competitions
i take free on line learning
i have one to one lessons with photography friends
i continue learning about the taking and making of photography.
resting ~ Lisbon, Portugal ~ 2016 by Hedy Bach
i enjoy street photography
i like people
i like walking and talking with people
it’s enlivening
and i love wandering urban environments
open ~ Dorothy, Alberta ~ 2016 by Hedy Bach
i also love to be alone
walk my dogs
in early mornings just after dark
my magic hour
i love the land
being outside
in a room without a roof
Physalis peruviana ~ Edmonton, Alberta ~ 2016 by Hedy Bach
i photograph in my home
i don’t need to be away to find beauty
of course i enjoy being in front of something different
being in various spaces and places
i am grateful for the opportunities that having a camera has given me.
17-01-10
by hedy
me elsewhere
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Hedy Bach: Special Guest Post
Alexis Marie: I have loved sharing the stories and inspirations of some truly interesting individuals during the InFocus 2016 show. Are you excited? Even through InFocus 2016 is already underway, it is not too early to begin preparing for InFocus 2017! In the fall, we will release the call for submissions and we would love to see your work. For now, I’m pleased to introduce one of our current and talented photographers, Hedy Bach.
Welcome Hedy!
Guest Post
As an imagemaker I study how things look and sound. I work daily with my camera and words to compose beautiful “thought things” as one way to form ideas to inspire reflection and rumination, perhaps start a conversation.
My photographs are almost all allegories about my understandings of human desire for settlement…of spaces and places in which people and things fit together. I try to negotiate my subjectivities of looking and composing my “thought things” with Scruton’s ideas of why beauty matters…to see the remedy of beauty as an instrument of peace.
On 12/6/15 I received a happy email from Alexis Marie Chute for this InFocus 2016 exhibition. I am humbled that my image entitled ‘Mason’ was chosen to be part of this years exhibit.
“Mason” 2015
Steve Butler’s apartment number movie
Sometimes BUT not always I see sounds first…when I saw this Mason jar at the Fort Edmonton…the words from Connor Zwetsch’s song “Candy Bars” came into my mind’s eye…
whisky and coke in our mason jars
to the year’s sweeter than candy bars
we crumble like the leaves
In the room I imagined a “thought thing” for my blog post, which started conversations…here is one.
“Hi Hedy, I like the question mark that seems to follow that [Mason] image of yours for me. I felt like someone was just there. And yet it seemed deserted and it made me wonder what they were doing, and what did they do there, and was the water clean in an old jar or was it dirty water and why? Also I thought of Mason as in Stonemason, Mason bee, and of course mason jar. One definition I saw online was “to build from or strengthen with stone” and for me that was an interesting image next to the centerpiece of something made of glass. Anyway I enjoyed thinking about your photograph and all the different thoughts I had in doing so.”
“I’ve got icicles hanging” 2015
distance between Earth and the star Polaris in light years
it’s too quiet in here
and i’m beginning to freeze
i’ve got icicles hanging
from my knees
under fifteen feet of pure white snow (Nick Cave, 2001)
“Hold your breath” 2015
number of solar days in the mean tropical year
“Look carefully at the little girls you are teaching, Hedy, many will go missing or be murdered.”
These Elder’s staggering words have lingered for 10 years and continue to haunt me.
When I think of our missing and murdered Aboriginal women if not now, when? My image is part of The REdress Photography project lead by Mufty Mathewson.
“U” 2015
http://hedybach.tumblr.com/post/129449278387/u-hedybach
In celebration of St. Albert Photography Club’s 25th anniversary in 2017, my image ‘U” was selected for their submission to the ‘Art Gallery of St Albert’ art show.
“In my camera bag” 2015
http://www.streethunters.net/blog/2015/10/26/inside-hedy-bachs-camera-bag/
Hedy Bach is an award winning visual researcher, writer, and imagemaker. Hedy’s first book A Visual Narrative Concerning Curriculum, Girls, Photography Etc. was published in 1998 and explores the evaded curriculum in the lived experiences of high school girls through photography and story. Currently, she is working on a narrative nonfiction entitled Emeline which is a graphic novel being created by cutting up and reorganizing illustrations from cultural artifacts, photography, and literature.
Special Guest Blog Posts by InFocus Alumni Photographers
Starting on Tuesday, I am honoured to share the work of some truly interesting photographers. These individuals were featured in the inaugural InFocus Exhibit held at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre this past February in Edmonton. InFocus was a huge success. Over 250 people visited the show over two days and at the opening reception I was thrilled to announce some good news.
InFocus will be an annual exhibit during Exposure Photography Festival. That means the discovery and promotion of more unique and cutting edge photography and more support for our creative community. InFocus will run the entire month of February, 2016, and will be held at a DC3 Art Projects in Edmonton. 2015 was open to Edmonton and area photographers, but soon the call for submissions will be released welcoming images from photographers across Alberta. There is so much to look forward to!
I am proud to curate InFocus. For more information, please click here. To receive blog updates and info about the call for submissions, please subscribe.
Here is the schedule of InFocus Photographers who will be sharing their passion for photography with us:
Hedy Bach – Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Martin Snider – Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Candace Makowichuk – Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Gerry Dotto – Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Wilfred Kozub – Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Robert Pohl – Tuesday, June 30, 2015
