Haleh Javanshir Photography

Towering monterey pines lean into the blue mist of the valley beyond.These iconic Monterey Pines are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco. A larger framed edition of this ...

Giant oaks reach across a shady path in the woods, soft morning light glowing in the distance. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. The pho...

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog and wildflowers are in the woods across the bay fr...

A fan of photography since her early childhood, Mizrakli graduated from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Interior Decoration Department, and continued her higher education in London, where she started out her work as a photographer. Later on, she moved to New York to further develop her career as a photographer and enrolled in classes at the Photography Department of the New York Film Academy. She received a Master’s Degree in photography in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Mizrakli has conducted many shooting sessions for Mica Studios and Bullet Magazine in New York and had two solo exhibitions in Los Angeles. She has recently participated in the Contemporary Istanbul Exhibition (November 2013). In some of her black and white works she uses the human body only as a pictorial sign in order to create almost abstract works. First made anonymous, the female model is then cloned and circularly multiplied. The result is a kind of wheel in which the repeated human body gives birth to a new, seemingly vegetal or mineral structure. Thus, the human element seems to be transformed into different other natural...

These graceful leaning Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. They become top-heavy as they grow and their lower branches are knocked off in the wind, causing them to lean more and more each year. These are the misty woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, shortly after sunrise. The California coastal redwood...

This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals are different from those used in black and white photography. The light-sensitive chemicals can be used to print blue and white photographs from a large negative or a person can capture the silhouette of solid objects rather like an x-ray in blue and white. In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emulsion. When the painting had dried, she arranged plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that would leave gaps like lace, carefully moved the entire bundle outside while still covered and then exposed the pattern multiple times at different angles to the sun, to achieve various shades of blue and white. The heavy cotton watercolor paper then needed to be thoroughly rinsed in order to stop the darkening process. The silhouette here is of the Giant California Tree...

The pale gray-green of this monotype calls to mind the celadon glaze of Japanese pottery. Each was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along th...

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...

"The Sun Beneath the Sky" is a series of Lumen prints featuring imagined landscapes highlighted by soft glowing light. In the images, seen and unseen suns ...

A steep path in the woods curves upward with the distant pines at the top disappearing into morning fog and the leafy trees in the foreground bright and sharp. These are the foggy wo...

A larger hand-printed version of the 7.5 x 11" photograph of the same name. Only 10 editions made. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern Cali...

Vanessa Marsh is an American artist living and working in California. Her series The Sun Beneath the Sky reflects upon the nature of light, atmosphere, geology and time. Layers of pa...