Longing & Discontent

New Work

wendyerickson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:47:21 +0000

Here is an example of some of the new work. These will be beautiful printed on rag paper…I love the vintage look.

I must write more, I must write more…

wendyerickson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:41:57 +0000

So I have been very busy- I got a new job as Editor of photo technique Magazine. I love being back in the Editor’s seat- it’s been a while since I edited the Photo Instructor for ILFORD. Also have been making many new images- I’ve embarked on a new series of garden-related images, part of my Secret Garden portfolio, but these are all digital. Here is an experiment made on the iPad just for fun- not really my style, plus it is too small to print- a bit disappointing, but my other new images are not really like this one. They are purely digital but the end result looks like a platinum print. Very enchanting- I will show some examples soon.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

wendyerickson — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:43:52 +0000

HAPPY NEW YEAR…I hope to be making more posts soon!

Who needs a blog when you have facebook?

wendyerickson — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:25:09 +0000

So really, I’ve been thinking that since I joined facebook (or “the facebook”) I seem to post my random thoughts there- maybe that’s not correct…So hopefully you will see some new posts from me here soon, some with meaning. I has been a rough year this year…

What I want to know…

wendyerickson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:37:54 +0000

When did I stop being amazing?

It must have happened when I was sleeping. I really can’t say. I know it happened. I don’t know what to do about it.

wendyerickson — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:17:46 +0000

Okay, so you wonder, how can you have a blog and realistically not make any posts in 5 months? It’s a good question. I’m busy. I have two part time jobs and I run a small business. I clean and do laundry. I have dogs. A garden. Other stuff. Sometimes I’m too tired to write here. But I want to. And I will. When I’m ready. Right now I am setting up some new stuff in my studio. Getting ready to enter some shows, wading through hundreds of negatives to scan, deciding on what projects to make into books and figuring out how to buy a new computer, plus a new copy of Photoshop.

I am constantly making new images. I’m shooting film again, medium format, black and white. I process it myself. How quaint.

-Wendy

Hello in June

wendyerickson — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:45:39 +0000

Here are some new photographs made last weekend in Delaware.

Hair we go again

wendyerickson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:58:05 +0000

Okay, so I cut my hair. It was long, then it got shorter, then it was blond, and now it is even shorter and back to its normal color or close to it. I miss my long braids, I miss not having to deal with the freaking blow dryer. Why do women cut their hair as they get older? I really don’t know anymore. I should be making photographs.

Sometimes there is nothing to write about

wendyerickson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:18:48 +0000

Do you ever reach the stage of exhaustion where you feel there is nothing to write- at least for now? That’s where I am. I did make prints in the darkroom last week, it was wonderful- there is nothing like a real black and white print, nothing at all that compares to it!

VINTAGE Photographic work

wendyerickson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:55:48 +0000

Today I spent some time cleaning out a closet. Since my ‘studio’ is an 8 ft x 10ft room, I don’t have a lot of storage space for tidy labeled boxes of things. I found a lot of older work – beautiful polachrome images printed on Cibachrome (Yes, before it was called ILFOCHROME) and all kinds of photogaphs that ended up in a large portfolio box, labeled as “Misc Photos.” Much older work was made on transparency film, 6×6 and 6×7, they haven’t been printed for years. When will I scan these? So I even want to scan them? Some of the color prints I found are quite lovely – my entire camp meeting project proofed on 8×10 paper and stored neatly in a sleeved portfolio- There are hundreds of images from that project. My head hurts thinking about it. Here is a self portrait (there were tons of those too) this one from Ellis Island, circa 1983 ish.