Tina Rowe was th 2019Denis Roussel Award winner.
“Using liquid emulsion, this artist prints found negatives anonymous snapshots from a previous era, onto oyster shells she gathers at the edge of London’s Thames River – a very unexpected conjunction of materials. She has fused two castoff elements into small handheld portraits which are oddly reminiscent in size and weight of original 19th century daguerreotypes in cases. The artist wrote that she displays these photo-objects alongside other found artifacts from her river walks. Viewers immediately handle the shells, engaging with these photographs in ways they would not, had the images been printed, framed and hung on the wall in a more conventional presentation. “Jesseca Ferguson
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“This is such wonderful and evocative work. Thank you for posting Tina Rowe’s images! I was delighted by their poetic qualities when I had the honor of jurying the Denis Roussel Award in 2019. It was my great choose Tina’s work for the award. My only regret is that I had to review the work on-line, and could not actually handle these photo-objects. Their physical presence and tactile qualities help convey their “weight” in terms of the artist’s own biography and for all of us who encounter images of long-gone, absent ones – whether we knew them or not. Roland Barthes wrote of this experience so eloquently in Camera Lucida, when he contemplated the Winter Garden photograph.”Jesseca Ferguson
This is such wonderful and evocative work. Thank you for posting Tina Rowe’s images! I was delighted by their poetic qualities when I had the honor of jurying the Denis Roussel Award in 2019. It was my great choose Tina’s work for the award. My only regret is that I had to review the work on-line, and could not actually handle these photo-objects. Their physical presence and tactile qualities help convey their “weight” in terms of the artist’s own biography and for all of us who encounter images of long-gone, absent ones – whether we knew them or not. Roland Barthes wrote of this experience so eloquently in Camera Lucida, when he contemplated the Winter Garden photograph.