Steven Godfrey
Profile
From the very early days of my photography career, I’ve done experimental work. My first forays were multiple image black & white prints. Essentially, they were special effects prints using several negatives to produce a surreal effect.
I first learned the Polaroid transfer process, while I was in college for photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (1992-94). The process allows me to print a color Polaroid image onto watercolor paper. While in college I began doing urban exploration. Pittsburgh, at that time, still had a tremendous number of derelict steel mills and other industrial buildings. The presence of these buildings is one of the main reasons that I chose a school in Pittsburgh.
After college I developed a taste for roadside architecture and discovered that the Polaroid processes lent themselves very well to these subjects as well. Not long after, I began work exclusively with Polaroids to document both the industrial and roadside architecture in addition to experimenting with other subject matter or settings. About that same time I acquired an SX-70 Polaroid camera and experimented with the Time Zero film that that camera takes. The properties of the Time Zero film allow me to create images reminiscent of the Impressionist school of painting.
Groups
Steven Godfrey hosts Alternative Process and Experimental Photography and Diners, Drive-Ins, and other Roadside Attractions and is a member of !* Dark Cabaret *!, ***♂♥♥QUORN♥♥♀, Abandoned Dark Creepy, After Dark, Altered Art - Collage and Assemblage, Altered by Design, Amazing Graves, Anything Edinburgh, Anything Theatrical, Architectural Photography, Art Deco Heaven, Avant-Garde, Black and White Photography, Castle Magic, Challenge Café, Creative Inspirations - [2pw], Dark artists, dark art, Dawn and Dusk Light, Dilapidated Buildings, Eerie Lighting, Experimental, Film Photography, Friends of RedBubble, Images & Ideas, Inverted World, Light Trails, Live, Love, Dream: , Mad Hatters, Mills & Mines, Mixed Media, Neon Heaven, Night Photography, Nostalgic Art and Photography, Out of the Past, Parallel Dimensions, Polaroid Lovers, POSTED: No Trespassing, Requiem, Retro Conglomerate, Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Selective Coloring, Self Portrait, Something To Say, Steam Punk, StreetArt, Symbolism in Art, Technical Photography, That One Great Shot, THE DARK CELL, The Fine Art of Photography, The Grunge Art Gallery, The Keystone State - Pennsylvania, The Scots are Coming, The Urban Environment, Theatrical and Staged Photography, Timelapse/Long Exposure Photography, Underground USA, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Viva la Skull and Windows and Doors.
