BED: Photographs by Lodiza LePore
Lodiza LePore is extremely loyal and dependable volunteer to Images Cinema
and a relatively new resident to the Berkshire area. A small selection of images
will be displayed the cinema foyer, created from her participation in the "BED"
project, a national competition for photographs and photo-based artwork at Umbrella
Arts, New York City. 'We all have BED but it’s mostly hidden away in a
remote room upstairs in our houses or in the back room of our apartments. BED
is rarely discussed, is mostly taken for granted, yet we use it more than anything
else in the house, spending perhaps one-third of our lifetime there.'
Lodiza's work is award winning, published and shown in galleries all around
the country. All her images are hand printed and toned [sepia/selenium] using
traditional darkroom techniques [sans Photoshop or other computer enhancements],
so no two prints of the same image are exactly alike. Almost without exception,
all work is done on black and white film and subject matter covers a wide range,
from landscape to street scenes to surreal tabletop imagery, often using experimental
techniques that yield textural or impressionistic qualities to the imagery.
