Henri Blommers was the 2022 Denis Roussel Award Winner. “Your work is quite wonderful and as anyone deeply connected to nature knows, there are no straight lines and it is the flaws that are beautiful and special. The fake truths that you write about are the real aberrations and have nothing to do with… Read More
The 2021 Denis Roussel Award Diana Bloomfield Cyanotype / Gum Bichromate / Handmade books “Such accomplished and beautiful work… precise, playful, clearly loved in the process of making. What I truly enjoyed was how many ways this work might be experienced in person especially if given the permission to hold and move the… Read More
My current series, “One in the Sameness” revolves around the theme of a garden landscape and is influenced by literary sources that have both triggered memory and activated my creative mind.
“Photography is a way of feeling,of touching,of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” Aaron Siskind
Tina Rowe was the 2019 Denis Roussel Award recipient as selected by Jesseca Ferguson. Oyster Shell Ghost “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… Read More
Today Rfotofolio revisits the work of Luther Gerlach, the first recipient of theDenis Roussel Award 2018.
“Your portfolio is eerily familiar, with the textures and tonalities of the very first light markings on light sensitive substrates… I imagined, while contemplating your images, a future observation of 1000-year old photographs of what the moon used to look like before it disappeared from our solar system. Your work inspired fantasy and pathos in… Read More
The Denis Roussel Award was started in 2018 to honor the legacy of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on the historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. No inkjet prints. Every year we are pleased and humbled to see the portfolios of work that come in… Read More
Cristina Saez’s portfolio was chosen as a Work of Merit by Christopher James in the 2024 Denis Roussel Awards. “This portfolio represents, I believe, the essence of what motivated and inspired Denis Roussel… a blending of magic, creative human response with the barest of materials and collaboration with the natural world and what… Read More
François Pitot received special recognition for his work in the 2024 Denis Roussel Award.
Maija Bondar’s work was a 2024 Rfotofolio Merit Selection chosen by CR and JR. Would you please tell us about yourself? Hi! My name is Maija, and I live in Jyväskylä, Finland. I was born in Ukraine, but at the age of seven, I moved to Russia with my parents. Every summer, my sister and… Read More
Jerry Takigawa’s work Balancing Cultures was chosen as a 2024 Rfotofolio Work of Merit by juror Diana Bloomfield. “I found this intergenerational narrative incredibly powerful. An intensely personal body of work, the core message remains universal and still resonates over 80 years later, serving as both a reminder and a warning. The grace, dignity, and… Read More
