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 2010, I set out for the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada with my wet plate darkroom and a need to exist in the desert. The ghost town of Rhyolite is adjacent to Death Valley. The residency that housed me, Goldwell, gave me a place to work out of, and I tramped around that lonesome valley, where the silence was the loudest I had ever heard.