INKJET PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS & PROJECTS
2023, 2024 & 2025
(a work in progress)
I began the Inkjet Print Project in early 2023, following my purchase of a new Epson 6000P printer and five eye surgeries which left me with a disorienting vision problem known as a disparity of vision. Printing images I had never printed before was my first initiative, and the project just kept growing and changing once I began the process. I decided to first make 12x12" "study" prints of everything that seemed worthy of being printed, and leave the question open as to which images needed to be printed larger at a later date. It would be easier to make those decisions after seeing the 12x12" images which would help me contemplate the the many issues regarding which images should be printed larger.
(Note: After I began my photography blog in November 2010 I decided to give up gallery and museum exhibiting and devote all my creative energy to making new work. Blogging provided me a safe and yet public means of presenting my new work within various project conceptual frameworks without having to take the time and money to make the prints, many of which could end up in the trash after I saw each image in their larger context of my ever expanding creative process).
I started out making 12x12" prints of all my favorite images from work dating from the time I began making work for my photography blog (see the blog's Welcome Page and its Introductory material.) I collected my arbitrarily selected printed images into Books, then later I used the images in the Books to create 12x12" thematic based Projects.
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This project (published on my blog June, 2023) helped me to initiate the 12x12" Inkjet Print Books and Projects. The twenty five images were chosen from my collection of 18 Pandemic inspired blog projects produced between the Winter of 2020 and September 2023. The blog projects are listed in the introduction to the The Pandemic Inkjet Prints project.
Two other inkjet print projects were made in 2023, and one dated March, 2024:
A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl (Blog version, revised: April 2023)
Inkjet prints made in 2023 (image sizes vary from 16x20" to 18x21")
18x18" images on 20x24" paper Inkjet prints made in 2023 (Blog project: June, 2023)
18x21" images on 20"x24" paper Inkjet prints made in February, 2024 (Blog project: June, 2023)
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Returning to the 12x12" (square) inject prints for a moment, I want to emphasize the impact the square format had of work that was to come later, after I initiated the project which was in part inspired by the early Studies I photography project of 1994-2000, in which I made miniature, square 3.5"x3.5" silver gelatin prints of images I found hidden in my archive of early made black and white negatives. I have written in detail about all this in my Introduction for Book One.
The Silent Dialogues project consists of 18x18" square Inkjet Printed images on 20x24" paper, and eventually I decided to print some of my most favorite images from the 12x12" Books and Projects in larger sizes. There is no doubt about it, the larger prints are impressive when viewed in the context of their smaller 12x12" versions. The print quality and additional visual detail can be quite mesmerizing.
I love the square format for its ability to concentrate my vision in a straight-forward and often centered way. But not all images can be transformed from the 4:3 ratio to a square. I love it when it's truly possible and fully articulate, but some images just are more alive as longer rectangular images. I tend to move toward the square format with images formatted in the proportions of 4x5 (i.e., the 16x20" format).
My Meadow Series photographs, which began in 2010 shortly after my wife Gloria and I moved (after retirement from teaching) from Milwaukee to Canandaigua, NY in 2008, was one of my blog's first major projects. All of the images were presented in their long rectangular format. Later, after working through many of the 12x12" inkjet print Books and Projects, I felt inspired to try printing some of the meadow images as square photographs. And a similar thing happened with my Symmetrical Photographs. They were originally presented on my blog as longer formatted images, mostly because the images I used for the symmetrical constructions were in the 4:3 format. But since I had come to think of the symmetrical images as essentially "round" or "circular" images, it made the most sense to print them that way, as squares.
Thus, in addition to the 12x12" Books and Projects, I have collected my newly printed larger inkjet prints into separate projects according to image size, and according to square and rectangular formats.
This link includes all of the 12x12" Books and Projects.
