Biography:
Lisa Elmaleh is an American visual artist, educator, and documentarian based in Hampshire County, West Virginia. She specializes in large-format work in tintype, glass negative, and celluloid film. Since 2007, she has been traveling across the US...
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Focus:History, Art, Humanitarian, Human Rights, International, Visual Artist, US Politics, Nature
Covering:Latin America,USA & Canada
Skills:Historical Processing, Book Layout/Design, Black & White Printing, Video Editing
In 2012, I felt the earth move beneath my feet where I did not choose to step. I slipped into a depression, the kind, if you know it, that’s sticky, that blankets everything. I decided to make a project of it – a daily regimen of self-portraiture, a penance that must be completed once daily, to force myself to examine my own person. To make this penance complete, I was to use the 8x10 camera – the farthest thing, in my mind, from a snapshot camera – the 8x10 is a camera that has to be meditated on for even just the act of setting up. I did this daily for an entire year, and then some – it was hard to stop once I started. These are a selection of images from that body of work.