DOROTHY FREUDENBERG - DIGITAL MEDIA

DOROTHY FREUDENBERG is a photographer who has left the confines of traditional photography and embraced the new digital technologies, producing works that are in a sense, multi-media. By combining photography with the capabilities of a digital darkroom, working in programs that allow her to build multi-layered pieces, she transforms her factual photography renditions into expressions of internal emotional conditions, with brilliantly-colored, painterly qualities. Years of study in black and white photography have expanded into a new art form, whose tools leave room for a limitless range of possibilities, challenging her to continually engage in experimenting and expanding her expressive capabilities.

"I grew up in the Midwest. When I set out for college, I intended to study art and literature, but four years later, I graduated with a degree in Piano.

A few years would pass before I was inexorably drawn back to the graphic arts, as I was lured into a darkroom. I never came out! Several years of black and white photography followed, but it was with the advances in digital technologies that I gradually began to realize the scale of amazing possibilities that would become possible in the change to a digital darkroom. In my wildest dreams, I could not have previously known the new avenues this would lead me into.

Link to limited edition prints by Dorothy Freudenberg