EllinRonee

I have been creating images with words and cameras since I was a very small child. At first everything was autobiographical, evolving from the only world I knew.

My pictures then turned to a point of voyeurism. There are times that I think what I am seeing I can’t possibly be seeing. I can document it with my camera. Sometimes I find, within the image, things I hadn’t seen at all.

There is a narrative to life and to images. Unlike novels, our lives don’t necessarily distinguish between beginnings, middles and endings. Particularly endings.

Looking through my images, which I started taking when I was 8 years old, I’ve seen how I’ve evolved from a take of pictures to a maker of images.

I love black and white but I mostly shoot in color. I always have. I think with black and white there is a sense of attention. The eye can’t help but turn toward the subject, what it is that the photographer makes her focus. In color there is a focus but the color and its permeations reveal the photographer’s intention. The viewer’s eye moves about. There is a direction but it is fuller, more colorful.

There is a narrative in imagery. The brilliant sculptor, Louise Bourgeois once wrote that when she completes a work she looks at it and thinks, “so that’s what I wanted to say.”

Regarding my fine art, I don’t know if I want to say something as much as I ‘see’ something and am not sure what it is until I make the image.

Commercial work and portraits are a whole other thing.
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My Master of Arts degree is in Theater. My PhD is in Culture and Communications with a specialty in Transgressive Photography and Literature. I earned the degree from New York University in 1999.