Phyllis SchwartzCilantro and Baby Bok Choy, 2009, 8"x10", Analogue Photography/Photogenic Drawing (lumen print)

I use the photographic process as an investigative tool. I move through the world slowly, freezing time and magnifying the moment. It brings me up close to events, people objects and ideas. My passion for spare poetry draws me to photographers like Ansel Adams, Imogene Cunningham, Edward Weston and Jerry Burchfield, artists who inform me about light and show me how to observe the elements. My work is an inquiry into the nature of permanence and impermanence. It asks, “What remains?”

Attracted to the serendipity of the photography process, for more than thirty years, I have played with many photographic techniques: black and white, colour, digital and alternative process. I am a photographer poet on a journey in quest of poetic imagery. My current lumen prints are photogenic drawings made by a contact print process using organic materials that leave traces and shadows on photosensitive surfaces. These monoprints are made without a camera or darkroom enlarger.

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