ViewPoint Gallery in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada exhibits fine art photography. Founded in 2000, ViewPoints shows monthly exhibitions and hosts a variety of photography focused events.
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ViewPoint Gallery International Photography Competition April 2025 winner
“Affinity Delft"
Jo Scheder
(USA)
The ViewPoint Gallery holds an annual jury-reviewed photography competition with one winning print displayed in our gallery each month.
For April 2025, we are featuring a photograph by JoScheder.
Artist Statement:
My interest is in light and circumstance. Affinity Delft is from a series of photographs originating in transient natural light -- specifically, ambient window light -- refracted by hand through glass or liquid that I maneuver to find/create light images as they emerge and dissipate. I photograph the coaxed image before it disappears, then explore or refine it digitally. Once the initial photograph is made -- or the refracting tool is moved, or the light shifts -- the original phantom presence is gone forever, existing only in that moment's light and gesture. Affinity Delft is a collage of this technique plus photographs from my personal archive. The pattern surrounding the figure, for example, is from a photograph of Indonesian design fabric, representing to me an allusion to Vermeer’s use of weavings, but also to Dutch colonialism of the period. Transience, changeability, and an ephemeral state of existence are at the heart of these pieces.
Price: $410 CAD
Biography:
Jo Scheder is a self-taught artist and photographer. She approaches photography as ethnography, extending from her professional career as an anthropologist, researcher and university faculty. In her teaching across a range of academic disciplines, she incorporated art history and contemporary artistic expression. Her aesthetic is influenced by her work as a theatre lighting designer, primarily in Honolulu, where she began incorporating 35mm projections into her designs in the late 1980s. Currently focused on digital art/photography, her work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; the Chania International Photography Festival, Crete; and in print and online exhibitions including Athens, Greece; Rome, Italy; London, England; Honolulu; San Francisco; Minneapolis; Chicago; and Manhattan. She is currently based in Madison, Wisconsin.