Heather Oelklaus

New Orleans, 2017

Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...

Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...

Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...

Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...

Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...

Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...

Inspired by East Asian Sumi ink drawings, George McLeod wanted to find a photographic way of producing intricately detailed images. As with Sumi ink draw...

I began making photograms with alternate light sources in 2020, due to having an unfinished darkroom at the time of the shutdown. (Fortunately, the wet side was nearly complete just prior and I had a ton of old European sized Forte in my paper safe to experiment with). "Into the Ether" was my first in-depth body of cameraless work, which was completed at the end of the year. All of my images are essentially subconscious self-portraits which reveal themselves during my printing processes (that applies to both film-based prints and unique darkroom darkroom prints made without the use of a camera). This award-winning series took shape while in the height of covid-based isolation. However, making the work led to my now current occupation, as I now specialize in experimental photograms and teach some of my processes. "Flower Implosion" was one of my first sparkler exposures involving moving water; Made with flowers and water, this triple exposed sparkler-o-gram debuted via an online exhibition...

One-of-a-kind handmade print (photogram made sans enlarger). One of my early photograms, made in 2020; I began making alt process photograms in June 2020, due to having an unfinished...

I began making photograms with alternate light sources in June 2020, due to having an unfinished darkroom at the time of the shutdown. This one-of-a-kind handmade black-and-white pri...

Unique silver gelatin print (photogram made sans enlarger); from my "From the Ashes" series. My first covid-born cameraless series, inspired due to having an unfinished darkroom at t...

Unique silver gelatin print; Mixed process triple exposure with flowers, glitter, sand, and water. Made by hand in my home darkroom. "Metamorphosis" series. I began making photogram...